PathParser is capable of parsing absolute or relative URLs or file paths and can compute the relative path to go from a given path to another. It resolves relative references as /./ or /../, and eliminates consecutive / characters in the input path.PathParser is an alternative to PHP realpath() function, with two basic differences: it works with real and virtual ...

URLclass allows you store absolute or relative URLs and access the various parts (scheme, host, port, part, query, fragment). It will also accept and attempt to resolve a relative URL against an absolute URL already stored.