A support class made to help working with URLs

UrlHelper.php

<?php

/**
 * A support class made to help with URLs
 */
class UrlHelper
{
    /**
     * Validate if param is a valid URL;
     *
     * @param  string  $url
     * @return bool
     */
    public static function isValidUrl(string $url): bool
    {
        return (bool) filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL);
    }

    /**
     * Modifies the query strings in a given URL.
     * This is a method adapted from @imliam (github) https://gist.github.com/ImLiam/49c420ddb2db881afd59d77635d039f8
     *
     * @param  string  $url URL to use parse. If none is supplied, the current URL of the page load will be used
     * @param  array  $queries Indexed array of query parameters
     * @return string The updated query string
     */
    public static function mergeQueries(string $url, array $queries): string
    {
        // Split the URL down into an array with all the parts separated out
        $urlParsed = parse_url($url);

        // Turn the query string into an array
        $urlParams = [];
        if (isset($urlParsed) && isset($urlParsed['query'])) {
            parse_str($urlParsed['query'], $urlParams);
        }

        // Merge the existing URL's query parameters with our new ones
        $urlParams = array_merge($urlParams, $queries);

        // Build a new query string from our updated array
        $stringQuery = http_build_query($urlParams);

        // Add the new query string back into our URL
        $urlParsed['query'] = $stringQuery;

        // Build the array back into a complete URL string
        $url = static::buildUrl($urlParsed);
        return rtrim($url, '?');
    }

    /**
     * Rebuilds the URL parameters into a string from the native parse_url() function.
     * This is a method adapted from @imliam (github) https://gist.github.com/ImLiam/49c420ddb2db881afd59d77635d039f8
     *
     * @param  array  $parts The parts of a URL
     * @return string  The constructed URL
     */
    public static function buildUrl(array $parts): string
    {
        return (isset($parts['scheme']) ? "{$parts['scheme']}:" : '') .
                ((isset($parts['user']) || isset($parts['host'])) ? '//' : '') .
                (isset($parts['user']) ? "{$parts['user']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['pass']) ? ":{$parts['pass']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['user']) ? '@' : '') .
                (isset($parts['host']) ? "{$parts['host']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['port']) ? ":{$parts['port']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['path']) ? "{$parts['path']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['query']) ? "?{$parts['query']}" : '') .
                (isset($parts['fragment']) ? "#{$parts['fragment']}" : '');
    }
}