PHP - Get URL and remove the trailing slash

Question

So I've created this function that get's the URL of the Website, but I also want it to remove the trailing / as well.

So far I have this:

function base_url() {
    $base_url = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';

    return $base_url.'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}

But I don't know how to remove the trailing / from the URL.

I've also tried to add the rtrim but still no luck:

function base_url() {
    $base_url = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';
    $base_url = rtrim($base_url, '/');

    return $base_url.'://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}

Image of the URL -

http://php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php (`rtrim( $url, '/' )`. — Kenney, Feb 19 '16 at 20:36
Can you show how you tried that, and what the url looked like after the `rtrim`? — Kenney, Feb 19 '16 at 20:38
Why add an image? Just paste the URL into the question and surround it with backticks (`\``). Blanking out a section of it just makes it harder to find the issue... — SeinopSys, Feb 19 '16 at 20:48
'https' and 'http' will never have a trailing slash. you're applying rtrim() in the wrong place — Brad Kent, Feb 19 '16 at 20:48
take it - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12494515/remove-unnecessary-slashes-from-path — Dmytro, Feb 19 '16 at 20:49
@DJDavid98 I've added the URL, also @Brad Kent well something is adding the trailing `/` as you can see from the URL there is an extra one their — Stephen, Feb 19 '16 at 20:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '16 at 20:53

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Try it like this:

function base_url() {
    $base_url = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';
    $base_url.= '://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

    return rtrim( $base_url, '/' );
}

answered Feb 19 '16 at 20:53

Kenney

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PHP - Get URL and remove the trailing slash

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