Remove website http/https while adding URL

Question

In my custom field, users add their site URls. I want to display them like this example.com not http//example.com/. I want to remove the http/https. This is just for the display purpose.

<?php

$site = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, 'url', true );

echo '<a class="user-website" href="'.$site.'">'.$site.'</a>';
?>

While display, it displays the entire URL like http://example.com in a link. I want to remove the protocol and display like example.com

Thanks

Technoh · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-24 16:22:28Z

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<?php

$site = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, 'url', true );
$site_without_http = trim( str_replace( array( 'http://', 'https://' ), '', $site ), '/' );

echo '<a class="user-website" href="'.$site.'">'.$site_without_http .'</a>';

?>

edited Mar 24, 2016 at 16:22

answered Mar 24, 2016 at 16:03

Technoh

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rsabir Over a year ago

An improvement will be to add the count parameter in str_replace like this : $site_without_http = str_replace( array( 'http://', 'https://' ), '', $site,1 );

Ayanize Over a year ago

Thanks it works. Thank you but it still adds a trailing slash example.com/. Actually I added the site like this example.com

Technoh Over a year ago

Why? I assumed the URL was valid and a valid URL can have only one complete prefix.

Technoh Over a year ago

I have updated my answer to remove the trailing slash, if any.

Ayanize Over a year ago

Thanks once again @technoh. However, I am getting this fatal error with your updated one Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in...

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Hazonko · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-24 16:08:19Z

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Using regex:

just http:// or https://

preg_replace(/\w+:\/\//, "", $string);

also www.

preg_replace(/\w+:\/\/w{3}\./, "", $string);

answered Mar 24, 2016 at 16:08

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