In reply to adrian,
Thank you very much for your function. There is a small issue with your relative protocol function. You need to remove the // when making the url the path. Here is the new function.
function resolve_url($base, $url) {
if (!strlen($base)) return $url;
// Step 2
if (!strlen($url)) return $base;
// Step 3
if (preg_match('!^[a-z]+:!i', $url)) return $url;
$base = parse_url($base);
if ($url{0} == "#") {
// Step 2 (fragment)
$base['fragment'] = substr($url, 1);
return unparse_url($base);
}
unset($base['fragment']);
unset($base['query']);
if (substr($url, 0, 2) == "//") {
// Step 4
return unparse_url(array(
'scheme'=>$base['scheme'],
'path'=>substr($url,2),
));
} else if ($url{0} == "/") {
// Step 5
$base['path'] = $url;
} else {
// Step 6
$path = explode('/', $base['path']);
$url_path = explode('/', $url);
// Step 6a: drop file from base
array_pop($path);
// Step 6b, 6c, 6e: append url while removing "." and ".." from
// the directory portion
$end = array_pop($url_path);
foreach ($url_path as $segment) {
if ($segment == '.') {
// skip
} else if ($segment == '..' && $path && $path[sizeof($path)-1] != '..') {
array_pop($path);
} else {
$path[] = $segment;
}
}
// Step 6d, 6f: remove "." and ".." from file portion
if ($end == '.') {
$path[] = '';
} else if ($end == '..' && $path && $path[sizeof($path)-1] != '..') {
$path[sizeof($path)-1] = '';
} else {
$path[] = $end;
}
// Step 6h
$base['path'] = join('/', $path);
}
// Step 7
return unparse_url($base);
}