Retrieving the page file name

[Davy]

I am currently attempting a 404 report system.

If a 404 occurs then details are INSERT'd into a MySQL table. The entry of information is not the problem, however.

I want to determine what the EXACT file name is.

I know I can explode the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] variable, then only echo the specific array element, but what if I coded this to find the file after one sub-folder and the page is actually 2 sub folders, for example:

1 sub folder
domain.com/tutorials/one.php

If I coded the page to retrieve the third array element of this exploded, I would get 'one.php' returned.

But what if the user clicks on a file say
domain.com/tutorials/further/blah.php

Then the third array element would no longer be the page name + ext but it would now be 'further' which isn't what I want.

What I want
Is there a way of grabbing the very last array element regardless of what it is?

Why I want this
I want to save to the 'error' table what the page was that the user clicked on to be faced with a 404.php page.

Thank you for your time 🙂

[devinemke]

what webserver are you using? virtually all webservers log this info (notably /Apache/logs/error.log). rather than write your own 404 trapping routine why not just write a simple PHP script to parse the server's error log. you could optionally dump the parsed results into a database. seems like less reinvention of the wheel.