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The URI Parser

Because the library parses URIs in accordance to RFC3986, it ships with it own URI parser.

Parsing an URI to extract its components¶

<?php

public UriParser::parse(string $uri): string
public UriParser::__invoke(string $uri): string
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Since version 4.1: UriParser::__invoke is an alias of UriParser::parse.

The methods parse an URI according to RFC3986 and expect a string. They return a hash representation of the URI similar to parse_url results.

Here are the main differences with PHP’s parse_url function:

The UriParser::parse always returns all URI components.

<?php

use League\Uri\UriParser;

$parser = new UriParser();
var_dump($parser->parse('http://www.example.com/'));
//returns the following array
//[
//    'scheme' => 'http',
//    'user' => null,
//    'pass' => null,
//    'host' => 'www.example.com',
//    'port' => null,
//    'path' => '/',
//    'query' => null,
//    'fragment' => null,
//];

var_dump(parse_url('http://www.example.com/'));
//returns the following array
//[
//    'scheme' => 'http',
//    'host' => 'www.example.com',
//    'path' => '/',
//];
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Accessing individual component is simple without needing extra parameters:

<?php

use League\Uri\UriParser;

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

$uri = 'http://www.example.com/?';
$parser = new UriParser();
$parser->parse($uri)['query'];  //returns ''
$parser($uri)['query'];         //returns ''
parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_QUERY); //returns `null`
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Since a URI is made of at least a path component, this component is never equal to null

<?php

use League\Uri\UriParser;

$uri = 'http://www.example.com?';
$parser = new UriParser();
$parser->parse($uri)['path'];  //returns ''
$parser($uri)['path'];         //returns ''
parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_PATH); //returns `null`
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The UriParser class only parse and extract from the URI string its components. You still need to validate them against its scheme specific rules.

<?php

use League\Uri\UriParser;

$uri = 'http:www.example.com';
$parser = new UriParser();
var_dump($parser($uri));
//returns the following array
//[
//    'scheme' => 'http',
//    'user' => null,
//    'pass' => null,
//    'host' => null,
//    'port' => null,
//    'path' => 'www.example.com',
//    'query' => null,
//    'fragment' => null,
//];
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This invalid HTTP URI is succefully parsed.