Getting the URL with globals

[tomcurcuruto]

I am trying to grab the URL from each paged viewed on my site. Instead of pasting the same code in each file, I was hoping to put it in the template code that writes the banner for each page. I've tried many of the global variables and it only returns the URL/path of the template file. For example:

if the URL is http://domain.com/index.php
and the template file is here: http://domain.com/template.php
the result I get is http://domain.com/template.php

Is there anyway to get around this?
I was also considering just setting a $path variable in the first line of every page... but I was having a hard time passing the value to the template.php (where the variable would be used to execute a function).

[tekky]

include the template file into each file
then $PHP_SELF should relate to the original file 😉

[tomcurcuruto]

Where do I put "$PHP_SELF "... would it be like this:

in the "index.php" file I should have require(...the template file...).

and in the template file i should use $_SERVER('$PHP_SELF ') to get the URL of the page?

[tekky]

oke we have... aboutme.php

the first line of it looks like this...
require "template.php";
..........// your code here

now in template.php you can have
$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo $page;
and you will get yourpath/aboutme.php