retrieve mod_rewrite URL version in PHP

gford

first off - i posted ths in general help section. Some moderator please remove that post please? Sorry!

I know I can look at system variable REQUEST_URI to get the URL loaded. But this is the pre-mod_rewrite url like so:

http://www.mostpopularsites.net/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=listcats&Itemid=109&cat_id=54

So how do I in php get what's actually delivered, which is so:
http://www.mostpopularsites.net/mtree/Arts/Graffiti/

Thanks in advance for any help, pointers, references you may provide.

sneakyimp

if your URLs are getting rewritten by your server, you are going to have to look at your .htaccess file OR you are going to have to look at your server config (httpd.conf for Apache). this might require root-level access.

URL rewriting is specified by some strange syntax i don't fully understand that looks a lot like regular expressions. you would need to look at that and write your own code to convert urls.

what you will NOT find (as far as i know) is any built-in php function to take one url as input and apply the rewrite rules to it to let you know what it's going to end up being.

i could be wrong though.

mrhappiness

Originally posted by gford
I know I can look at system variable REQUEST_URI to get the URL loaded. But this is the pre-mod_rewrite url

i just tested it (apache 1.3, php 4.3.11)

localhost/some-entry is entered and get's translated to index.php?debug=0&show=1

my results:
$SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] holds the value, the user entered in the adress bar
/some-entry
$SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] contains the very same value

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] contains the script being called
index.php

$SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING'] contains ?debug=0&show=1
$SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] contains the very same value

hth

gford

It turns out with Mambo SEF and Advanced SEF (which is what I use) I have to actually call a function they have called sefRelToAbs($string)

Mambo converts the URL internally.