Clean url

gistfile1.txt

public function cleanUrl($url) {
        if (strpos($url, 'https://') > -1) {
            $clean = array_filter(explode("https://", $url));
            return $this->cleanUrl($clean[1]);
        }
        if (strpos($url, 'http://') > -1) {
            $clean = array_filter(explode("http://", $url));
            return $this->cleanUrl($clean[1]);
        }
        if (strpos($url, "/") > -1) {
            $clean = array_filter(explode("/", $url));
            return $this->cleanUrl($clean[0]);
        }
        return $url;
    }