$PHP_SELF doesn't work

Anon

Why doesn't $PHP_SELF work anymore after I updated to PHP4(ZEND). I have looked in the manual but I haven't found it there.

Anon

I, too, see $PHP_SELF with an error. Here's what I get back from phpinfo():
REQUEST_URI = /phpinfo.php3
SCRIPT_NAME = /php/php.exe
PATH_INFO = /phpinfo.php3
PHP_SELF = /php/php.exe/phpinfo.php3

It looks as if it's picking up the directory from the SCRIPT_NAME instead of "c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs" -- the default location for Apache's web pages.

Is there some directory value in php.ini or httpd.conf that has to be set to define PHP_SELF properly?

Anon

From a thread on http://www.zend.com phorum (sorry I didn't make a link) I got hints that it has to do with PHP4 running as cgi-bin under Win32. So it returns a path relative to the executable. Someone else indicated that even though the path looks wrong their script works as expected.

Anon

Found this answer in http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/734/fid/28

Add:
$PHP_SELF = str_replace ($SCRIPT_NAME, "", $PHP_SELF);
to your page.

Anon

$PHP_SELF = str_replace ($SCRIPT_NAME, "", $PHP_SELF); does not fix the problem for me.

I've tried to write a script that explodes the SCRIPT_NAME to return directory names as array entries....
e.g. on the page:
http://mydomain.com/forum/read.html

This function returns very erronous results:
function drawNav(){
global $root, $SCRIPT_NAME,$PHP_SELF;

$link = explode("/", $SCRIPT_NAME);
$subDir = "";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($link); $i++){
	echo "<BR>link[$i] = ".$link[$i];
	$subDir .= $link[$i]."/";
	echo '<BR>dir = '.$subDir.$link[$i]."<BR>";
	$d = dir($subDir.$link[$i]);
	echo "Handle: ".$d->handle."<br>\n";
	echo "Path: ".$d->path."<br>\n";
	while($entry=$d->read()) {
    	echo "<font color=red>".$entry."</font><br>\n";
}
$d->close();


}

$link = explode("/", $SCRIPT_NAME);

The above script is not reading my directories nor thier contents.

Obviously the script is failing unlike the suggestion that the script should work inspite of the seeming error.