A class to parse, build and manipulate URLs original

Oct 12th 2016 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

For several projects and other packages we need to manipulate URL's. Instead of coding the same URL class over and over again, we extracted URL manipulation to it's own package. Here are some code examples on how you can use it.

$url = Url::fromString('https://spatie.be/opensource');

echo $url->withHost('github.com')->withPath('spatie');
// 'https://github.com/spatie'

Query parameters can be retrieved and transformed:

$url = Url::fromString('https://spatie.be/opensource?utm_source=github&amp;utm_campaign=pacakges');

echo $url->getQuery(); // 'utm_source=github&amp;utm_campaign=pacakges'
echo $url->getQueryParameter('utm_source'); // 'github'
echo $url->withoutQueryParameter('utm_campaign'); // 'https://spatie.be/opensource?utm_source=github'

It can retrieve path segments:

$url = Url::fromString('https://spatie.be/opensource/laravel');

echo $url->getSegment(1); // 'opensource'
echo $url->getSegment(2); // 'laravel'

It implements PSR-7's UriInterface interface:

class Url implements UriInterface { /* ... */ }

The league/uri is a more powerful package than this one. The main reason our package exists, is because the alternatives require non-standard php extensions. If you're dealing with special character encodings or need bulletproof validation, you're definitely better off using league/uri.

That being said, if you need a lightweight solution, take a look at spatie/url on Github.