I'm trying to run a script that looks for the URL that the user is currently on. The problem that I'm running into is that the page has already been redirected and if I use the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable, it will give me the url that was originally typed in. I need to get the url that is actually showing.

How do I do this?

try:

<?PHP
print_r($_SERVER);
?>

then select which of these variables suits your need.

PHP Code:

$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]

$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]

$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] 


Thanks very much! You guys are life savers. I've been messing around with this for 2 days.

The print_r() function really helped. I found a variabel $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] which contained exactly what I was looking for. However, if the page hasn't been redirected then that variable doesn't exist so I had to put some logic in to use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead.

remember you can also put in:

phpinfo();

which will give you the list of all page variables. From here you can see which variable matches your requirement.

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