function removeQueryStringFromUrl($url) {

    if (substr($url,0,4) =="http") {

    $urlPartsArray = parse_url($url);

    $outputUrl = $urlPartsArray['scheme']. '://'. $urlPartsArray['host']. ( isset($urlPartsArray['path'])? $urlPartsArray['path'] : '' );

    } 
    else {

        $URLexploded = explode("?", $url, 2);

        $outputUrl = $URLexploded[0];

    }

    return $outputUrl;

}