Comments on: Getting the current URL with php

By: echo

echo — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:29:28 +0000

ooops…my bad…here it is…
link

By: echo

echo — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:27:24 +0000

This link explains exactly what you mention with some interesting examples. Stuff I hadn't seen before.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I'm not sure exactly what the difference is, but I'm using "$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']" in some of my scripts and it also seems to work well!

Chris

By: Jester

Jester — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] gets everything after the actual host, this bit:

http://www.host.com/script.php?foo=bar

So any easy way to get the full, current URL is:

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Useful for when you want to send emails out and you need to link to the absolute URL.

By: lynda

lynda — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

That's okay, I didn't know about the query_string variable and now I do, so it's all good.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, when I just tested it now - PHP_SELF worked just fine when in an include. Maybe it was an isolated incident due to a weird setting on that server (?)… don't know…

By: lynda

lynda — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

That's really odd. I have no idea why it would do that. I have php_self in several included files and they all work just fine.

Odd!