Common API

The League URI components provides at the same time a unified way to access all URI components while exposing more specific methods to regularly used components like URI queries, URI domains and URI paths.

To start, each URI component object can be instantiated from:

use League\Uri\Components\Host;
use League\Uri\Components\Path;
use League\Uri\Components\Port;
use League\Uri\Components\Query;

$uri = 'http://EXamPLe.com?q=value#fragment';

Query::new('q=value')->value();              // displays 'q=value'
Host::fromUri($uri)->value();                // displays 'example.com'
Port::fromAuthority('example.com')->value(); // displays null
Path::new()->value();                        // displays ''

Because URI component car be formatted differently depending on the context, each objects exposes different representations:

use League\Uri\Components\Domain;
use League\Uri\Components\Path;
use League\Uri\Components\Port;
use League\Uri\Components\Query;
use League\Uri\Components\Scheme;
use League\Uri\Components\UserInfo;

$uri = 'HtTp://john@bébé.be:23#fragment';

$scheme = Scheme::fromUri($uri);
echo $scheme->value();           //displays 'http'
echo $scheme->getUriComponent(); //displays 'http:'

$userinfo = UserInfo::fromUri('john');
echo $userinfo->value();           //displays 'john'
echo $userinfo->getUriComponent(); //displays 'john@'

$host = Domain::fromUri($uri);
echo $host->value();           //displays 'xn--bb-bjab.be'
echo $host->getUriComponent(); //displays 'xn--bb-bjab.be'

$path = Path::fromUri($uri);
echo $path->value();           //displays ''
echo $path->getUriComponent(); //displays ''

$query = Query::fromUri($uri);
echo $query->value();           //displays null
echo $query->getUriComponent(); //displays ''

$port = Port::fromUri($uri);
echo $port->value();           //displays '23'
echo $port->getUriComponent(); //displays ':23'

The value() method returns the normalized and RFC3986 encoded string version of the component or null if not value exists while the getUriComponent() returns the URI component value cast as a string with its optional delimiter if it exists.

To allow better interoperability all objects implements PHP’s Stringable and JsonSerializable interface and provide an explicit toString() method to cast the URI component to a string.

Normalization and encoding are component specific.

JsonSerializable encoding may differ to improve interoperability with current specification.

List of URI component objects

Because each component modification is specific there is no generic way of changing the component content. However, the package provides the following URI component objects with modifying capabilities.

For Paths:

For Hosts:

For Queries:

Other URI Components: