How to get the full URL of a Drupal page?

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I need to be grabbing the URL of the current page in a Drupal site. It doesn't matter what content type it is - can be any type of node.

I am NOT looking for the path to theme, or the base url, or Drupal's get_destination. I'm looking for a function or variable that will give me the following in full:

http://example.com/node/number

Either with or without (more likely) the http://.

drupal_get_destination is the solution since you know the domain name and if you are coding for the same domain, you can use it! — Bhavin Joshi, Apr 16 '13 at 04:43
Related: [How do I get the full URL of the current page?](http://drupal.stackexchange.com/q/27880/1908) at Drupal SE — kenorb, Mar 03 '15 at 23:01

Eaton · Answer 1 · 2009-04-03T20:32:37.710

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drupal_get_destination() has some internal code that points at the correct place to getthe current internal path. To translate that path into an absolute URL, the url() function should do the trick. If the 'absolute' option is passed in it will generate the full URL, not just the internal path. It will also swap in any path aliases for the current path as well.

$path = isset($_GET['q']) ? $_GET['q'] : '<front>';
$link = url($path, array('absolute' => TRUE));

edited Apr 03 '09 at 20:32

answered Apr 01 '09 at 00:30

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according to your link, drupal_get_destination() returns "destination=/node/number" or, for /node/number?destination=bla, "destination=bla". passing this to url() doesn't seem to work to me. – ax. Apr 03 '09 at 13:23
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Doh. You're correct. I've updated the snippet with the correct code. Thanks! – Eaton Apr 03 '09 at 20:31
Cool, but I had to add: `$echo link;` for a facebook app to work! Thanks! – Feb 06 '11 at 18:24

score 37 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '09 at 04:32

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This is what I found to be useful

global $base_root;
$base_root . request_uri();

Returns query strings and it's what's used in core: page_set_cache()

answered Aug 03 '09 at 04:32

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Note that this method won't work if your site is not at the domain root. For example, if your base URL is http://example.com/folder, this method will result in http://example.com/folder/folder/page. – Brandon Gano Sep 12 '12 at 00:22
If that is the case then there is a bug in core. see that the code comments in http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!bootstrap.inc/function/conf_init/6 "Build $base_root (everything until first slash after "scheme://")." – mikeytown2 Sep 12 '12 at 00:36
Another thing that could be causing issues that you're seeing if if you're web server is passing the wrong values in for $_SERVER see http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!bootstrap.inc/function/request_uri/6. – mikeytown2 Sep 12 '12 at 00:42

score 19 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 03 '15 at 22:24

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You can also do it this way:

$current_url = 'http://' .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

It's a bit faster.

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kenorb

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Always program to an interface not an implementation. – Rimian Mar 13 '11 at 10:28

score 14 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 03 '15 at 22:25

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Try the following:

url($_GET['q'], array('absolute' => true));

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kenorb

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answered Apr 03 '09 at 13:56

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This is a little more drupaly: url(current_path(), array('absolute' => true)); – Bala Clark Jul 11 '13 at 14:06

score 12 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 29 '13 at 19:13

This method all is old method, in drupal 7 we can get it very simple

    current_path()

http://example.com/node/306 returns "node/306".
http://example.com/drupalfolder/node/306 returns "node/306" while base_path() returns "/drupalfolder/".
http://example.com/path/alias (which is a path alias for node/306) returns "node/306" as opposed to the path alias.

and another function with tiny difference

request_path()

http://example.com/node/306 returns "node/306".
http://example.com/drupalfolder/node/306 returns "node/306" while base_path() returns "/drupalfolder/".
http://example.com/path/alias (which is a path alias for node/306) returns "path/alias" as opposed to the internal path.
http://example.com/index.php returns an empty string (meaning: front page).
http://example.com/index.php?page=1 returns an empty string.

The question is about getting the *full* URL, i. e. something like `http://example.com/node/number` . — ax., Sep 24 '12 at 11:16

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 20 '12 at 13:03

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I find using tokens pretty clean. It is integrated into core in Drupal 7.

<?php print token_replace('[current-page:url]'); ?>

answered Sep 20 '12 at 13:03

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Token `[site:current-page:path]` should work either. – kenorb Aug 08 '14 at 13:36

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 03 '15 at 22:26

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The following is more Drupal-ish:

url(current_path(), array('absolute' => true));

answered Mar 03 '15 at 22:26

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Feb 22 '17 at 14:06

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For Drupal 8 you can do this :

$url = 'YOUR_URL';
$url = \Drupal\Core\Url::fromUserInput('/' . $url,  array('absolute' => 'true'))->toString();

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answered Feb 22 '17 at 12:12

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score -1 · Answer 9 · edited Mar 03 '15 at 23:00

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Maybe what you want is just plain old predefined variables.

Consider trying

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'']

Or read more here.

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answered Mar 31 '09 at 23:10

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