PHP Warning: parse_url
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In the php_errorlog, there is a common warning, “PHP Warning: parse_url(…..”. This warning is caused within the bb_get_path function in bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php. The common cause of this issue is due to urls being passed to this function in the following format:
/bb-login.php?re=http://example.com/tags.php?tag=sometag
Due to the http:// within the query string, parse_url will fail and log an error. The way to get around this is to pre-pend the website address and http:// to the beginning of the url, such as:
http://example.com/bb-login.php?re=http://example.com/tags.php?tag=sometag
This format is valid with the parse_url function. To change your code to use this format, change the bb_get_path function in bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php to the following:
function bb_get_path( $level = 1, $base = false, $request = false ) {
if ( !$request )
$request = $_SERVER;
if ( is_string($request) )
{
// parse_url throws a warning for a url that has http:// as a query parameter and doesn’t start with http://
$pos = strpos($url, “http://”);
// Check if we found http:// in the string and it’s not at the beginning, and the url starts with a forward slash
if ($pos !== false && $pos > 0 && substr($request,0,1) == “/”)
{
// We got here, so it’s not at the beginning and is in the url. Add in the domain to the beginning
$oldRequest = $request; // Use a new variable since some PHP versions don’t like re-assigning
$request = “http://”.$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”].$oldRequest;
}
$request = parse_url($request);
}
if ( !is_array($request) || !isset($request) )
return ”;
$path = rtrim($request, ” tnrx0B/”);
if ( !$base )
$base = rtrim(bb_get_option(‘path’), ” tnrx0B/”);
$path = preg_replace(‘|’ . preg_quote($base, ‘|’) . ‘/?|’,”,$path,1);
if ( !$path )
return ”;
if ( strpos($path, ‘/’) === false )
return ”;
$url = explode(‘/’,$path);
if ( !isset($url[$level]) )
return ”;
return urldecode($url[$level]);
}
Doing this will get rid of the common error in your error log, and prevent site issues.
Note: This will need to be changed if your site is using SSL, such as https://
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