Full document URL?

[Anon]

Hi,
Wondered whether anyone could help me out with this one.

I'm trying to use

$url = parse_url($PHP_SELF);
$path = strtolower($url[path]);
$pos_of_dir = strpos($path, "/dir");

to get the URL of the document, of which I want to check the path part of the URL to see if there is a certain string (/dir in this case) inside it. However it seems $PHP_SELF isn't the full URL, just some kind of relative path to the page.

I can't find any env variable for the full URL?

So: does anyone know how I could basically search the full URL of a page for a certain string? I'd like to have this code in a separate file which the page in question calls (the page whose URL you want to use, not the included file), but if that creates problems it doesn't matter too much.

Thanks for any help - I'm discovering PHP is more different to Java than I expected!

• Richard

[daarius]

$PHP_SELF is only the name of the file (itself).

if you want to get the full url, which user has entered, then do $REQUEST_URI

where $REQUEST_URI will be the complete URL EXCEPT your root domain name.

e.g.

http://www.mysite.com/dir1/dir3/index.php

in this case, the $REQUEST_URI will return:
/dir1/dir2/index.php

of course you can get the complete URL, by prefexing every request uri with your site's domain name.

finally, you get all the directory pieces from the url by doing explode(); e.g.

$URL = explode('/', $REQUEST_URI);

$URL[0] // returns dir1
$URL[1] // returns dir2
$URL[2] // returns index.php3

also you can find the number of pieces by:
count($URL);

good luck,
🙂
Daarius...