How to extract domain name from an e-mail address string

Posted on September 5, 2008, under PHP 

If, for any reason, you need to extract the domain from an e-mail address (or from multiple e-mail address that are in a database) then you can use this function:

<?php
function getDomainFromEmail($email)
{
// Get the data after the @ sign
$domain = substr(strrchr($email, "@"), 1);

return $domain;
}

// Example

$email = 'the_username_here@yahoo.com';

$domain = getDomainFromEmail($email);

echo $domain; // yahoo.com
?>

  • September 5, 2008
  • article by Gabriel C.
  • 1 comment

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One Reply to "How to extract domain name from an e-mail address string"

  1. Gokul Shinde
    November 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM
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    This function returns all domain name after @ sign. I need only domain name like “yahoo” or “gmail” or “tcs” or “ibm” etc. for emails like “xyz@yahoo.co.in”.

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