Strip off URL parameter with PHP

In a different thread Justin suggests that the fastest way is to use strtok()

 $url = strtok($url, '?');

See his full answer with speed tests as well here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1251650/452515

The safest "correct" method would be:

1. Parse the url into an array with parse_url()
2. Extract the query portion, decompose that into an array using parse_str()
3. Delete the query parameters you want by unset() them from the array
4. Rebuild the original url using http_build_query()

Quick and dirty is to use a string search/replace and/or regex to kill off the value.