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Parsing Domain Name From URL In PHP

To get Domain name from the url, we can use parse_url() php function. This would filter the domain name from the given url. $domain = str_ireplace ( 'www.' , '' , parse_url ( $url , PHP_URL_HOST )); This would return the google.com for both http://google.com and http://www.google.com
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get directory paths, get Base URLs, get URLs in static block, get secure URL in Magento

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Upgrade from Magento 1.7.0.2 to 1.9.0.1

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