How do I get the current URL of my script using PHP?

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score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 28 '13 at 06:55

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Sometimes it is not as straightforward as one may think to get the current url to use it inside your application. Here is a snippet that I use to fetch the current URL and use it in a script. The current url (whether http or https) is now a local variable that you can do with as you please.

$url = "http".(!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?"s":"").
"://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Note: You should groom this value before using in anything sensitive, like a sql query.

edited Dec 28 '13 at 06:55

Sinkingpoint

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answered Dec 09 '09 at 05:30

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server port is missing.. – aLx13 Feb 24 '17 at 11:24
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if you use rewrite to add variables after the script, like /x.php/123/456 then using REQUEST_URI will include those parameters. SCRIPT_NAME might be better. – Ellert van Koperen Sep 15 '17 at 11:20
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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 16:27

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For www.example.com/files/script.php

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = /files/script.php

and if you want the current directory url:

dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) = /files

answered Jun 04 '13 at 16:27

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 09:26

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If you want to know the script name on your server, then..

$file = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
echo $file;

$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] will give you the current executed script path, which related on your server not on the browser's url.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 09:26

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 05:35

Whe you need info like this its often convenient to look at the output of phpinfo() and then read the docs on those items that seems good.

Keep in mind that some of them might be correct on your server, but slightly different on others.. Depending on os, http server etc.

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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suppose you were accessing

How do I get the current URL of my script using PHP?

then echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; // This will return u the hostname that is:-

stackoverflow.com/

and echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; // It will return only the file name from current url will return below

"/questions/1871770/how-do-i-get-the-current-url-of-my-script-using-php"

and not the hostname.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Dec 09 '09 at 06:27

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yes... PHP_SELF would only return the file... and not the other parameters.. and if one needs full path then he has to use "REQUEST_URI", and i have edited my answer.. – ravindrakhokharia Dec 11 '09 at 04:26
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not to mention that PHP_SELF is vulnerable to XSS. – Josh Sandlin Dec 11 '09 at 04:35

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 26 '13 at 06:50

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Hi this is the solution of your problem

//fetch page url by this

$url=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo "$url<br />";

//it will print

//fetch host by this

$host=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo "$host<br />";

//you can fetch full url by this

$fullurl="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo $fullurl;

edited Sep 26 '13 at 06:50

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answered Sep 26 '13 at 06:26

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How do I get the current URL of my script using PHP?

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