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URI String parser and builder

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System Requirements

You need:

While the library no longer requires out of the box the intl extension starting with version 1.4.0 to work, you still require it if you are dealing with URIs containing non-ASCII host. Without it, the parser will throw an exception if such URI is parsed.

Installation

$ composer require league/uri-parser

URI parsing

available since version 1.3.0 Parser::parse is an alias of Parser::__invoke.

The Parser::__invoke method is a drop-in replacement to PHP’s parse_url function, with the following differences:

The parser is RFC3986/RFC3987 compliant

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
var_export($parser('http://foo.com?@bar.com/'));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => null,
//  'pass' => null,
//  'host' => 'foo.com',
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => '',
//  'query' => '@bar.com/',
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

var_export(parse_url('http://foo.com?@bar.com/'));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'host' => 'bar.com',
//  'user' => 'foo.com?',
//  'path' => '/',
//);
// Depending on the PHP version

The Parser returns all URI components.

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
var_export($parser('http://www.example.com/'));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => null,
//  'pass' => null,
//  'host' => 'www.example.com',
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => '/',
//  'query' => null,
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

var_export(parse_url('http://www.example.com/'));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'host' => 'www.example.com',
//  'path' => '/',
//);

No extra parameters needed

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$uri = 'http://www.example.com/';
$parser = new Parser();
$parser($uri)['query']; //returns null
parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_QUERY); //returns null

Empty component and undefined component are not treated the same

A distinction is made between an unspecified component, which will be set to null and an empty component which will be equal to the empty string.

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$uri = 'http://www.example.com/?';
$parser = new Parser();
$parser($uri)['query'];         //returns ''
parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_QUERY); //returns null

The path component is never equal to null

Since a URI is made of at least a path component, this component is never equal to null

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$uri = 'http://www.example.com?';
$parser = new Parser();
$parser($uri)['path'];         //returns ''
parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_PATH); //returns null

The parser throws exception instead of returning false.

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$uri = '//example.com:toto';
$parser = new Parser();
$parser($uri);
//throw a League\Uri\Exception

parse_url($uri); //returns false

The parser is not a validator

Just like parse_url, the League\Uri\Parser only parses and extracts from the URI string its components.

You still need to validate them against its scheme specific rules.

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$uri = 'http:www.example.com';
$parser = new Parser();
var_export($parser($uri));
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => null,
//  'pass' => null,
//  'host' => null,
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => 'www.example.com',
//  'query' => null,
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

This invalid HTTP URI is successfully parsed.

function alias

available since version 1.1.0

The library also provides a function alias to Parser::__invoke, Uri\parse:

<?php

use function League\Uri\parse;

$components = parse('http://foo.com?@bar.com/');
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => null,
//  'pass' => null,
//  'host' => 'foo.com',
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => '',
//  'query' => '@bar.com/',
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

URI Building

<?php

use League\Uri;

function build(array $components): string

Uri\build is available since version 1.1.0

You can rebuild a URI from its hash representation returned by the Parser::__invoke method or PHP’s parse_url function using the helper function Uri\build.

If you supply your own hash you are responsible for providing valid encoded components without their URI delimiters.

<?php

use function League\Uri\build;
use function League\Uri\parse;

$base_uri = 'http://hello:world@foo.com?@bar.com/';
$components = parse($base_uri);
//returns the following array
//array(
//  'scheme' => 'http',
//  'user' => 'hello',
//  'pass' => 'world',
//  'host' => 'foo.com',
//  'port' => null,
//  'path' => '',
//  'query' => '@bar.com/',
//  'fragment' => null,
//);

$uri = build($components);

echo $uri; //displays http://hello@foo.com?@bar.com/

The Uri\build function never output the pass component as suggested by RFC3986.

Scheme validation

available since version 1.2.0

If you have a scheme string you can validate it against the parser. The scheme is considered to be valid if it is:

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
$parser->isScheme('example.com'); //returns false
$parser->isScheme('ssh+svn'); //returns true
$parser->isScheme('data');  //returns true
$parser->isScheme('data:'); //returns false

The library also provides a function alias Uri\is_scheme:

<?php

use function League\Uri\is_scheme;

is_scheme('example.com'); //returns false
is_scheme('ssh+svn'); //returns true
is_scheme('data');  //returns true
is_scheme('data:'); //returns false

Host validation

If you have a host string you can validate it against the parser. The host is considered to be valid if it is:

A registered name is a domain name subset according to RFC1123. As such a registered name can not, for example, contain an _. The registered name can be RFC3987 or RFC3986 compliant.

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
$parser->isHost('example.com'); //returns true
$parser->isHost('/path/to/yes'); //returns false
$parser->isHost('[:]'); //returns true
$parser->isHost('[127.0.0.1]'); //returns false

The library also provides a function alias Uri\is_host:

<?php

use function League\Uri\is_host;

is_host('example.com'); //returns true
is_host('/path/to/yes'); //returns false
is_host('[:]'); //returns true
is_host('[127.0.0.1]'); //returns false

Port validation

available since version 1.2.0

If you have a port, you can validate it against the parser. The port is considered to be valid if it is:

<?php

use League\Uri\Parser;

$parser = new Parser();
$parser->isPort('example.com'); //returns false
$parser->isPort(888);           //returns true
$parser->isPort('23');    //returns true
$parser->isPort('data:'); //returns false

The library also provides a function alias Uri\is_port:

<?php

use function League\Uri\is_port;

is_port('example.com'); //returns false
is_port(888);           //returns true
is_port('23');    //returns true
is_port('data:'); //returns false