Request string without GET arguments

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Is there a simple way to get the requested file or directory without the GET arguments  For example  if the URL is http   example com directory file php paramater value I would like to return just http   example com directory file php  I was surprised that there is not a simple index in   SERVER    Did I miss one

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It s shocking how many of these upvoted accepted answers are incomplete  so they don t answer the OP s question  after 7 years    If you are on a page with URL like  http   example com directory file php paramater value      and you would like to return just  http   example com directory file php then use        echo   SERVER  REQUEST SCHEME           SERVER  SERVER NAME     SERVER  PHP SELF

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I had the same problem when I wanted a link back to homepage  I tried this and it worked    lt a href   lt  php echo   SESSION  PHP SELF      gt    gt    Note the question mark at the end  I believe that tells the machine stop thinking on behalf of the coder

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I know this is an old post but I am having the same problem and I solved it this way   current request   preg replace                SERVER  REQUEST URI       Or equivalently   current request   preg replace        D       SERVER  REQUEST URI

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I actually think that s not the good way to parse it  It s not clean or it s a bit out of subject        Explode is heavy Session is heavy PHP SELF doesn t handle URLRewriting   I d do something like      if   pos get   strpos  app uri         app uri   substr  app uri  0   pos get      This detects whether there s an actual      GET standard format  If it s ok  that cuts our variable before the     which s reserved for getting datas   Considering  app uri as the URI URL of my website

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Here is a solution that takes into account different ports and https    pageURL       SERVER  HTTPS       on      https        http       if    SERVER  SERVER PORT       80      pageURL      SERVER  SERVER NAME         SERVER  SERVER PORT     SERVER  PHP SELF    else     pageURL      SERVER  SERVER NAME     SERVER  PHP SELF        Or a more basic solution that does not take other ports into account    pageURL       SERVER  HTTPS       on      https        http       pageURL      SERVER  SERVER NAME     SERVER  PHP SELF

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Solution   echoparse url   SERVER  REQUEST URI    PHP URL PATH

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Not everyone will find it simple  but I believe this to be the best way to go around it   preg match                SERVER  REQUEST URI     return    url    http      on        SERVER  HTTPS      s                    SERVER  HTTP HOST      return 0     What is does is simply to go through the REQUEST URI from the beginning of the string  then stop when it hits a      which really  only should happen when you get to parameters    Then you create the url and save it to  url  When creating the  url    What we re doing is simply writing  http  then checking if https is being used  if it is  we also write  s   then we concatenate        concatenate the HTTP HOST  the server  fx   stackoverflow com    and concatenate the  return  which we found before  to that  it s an array  but we only want the first index in it    There can only ever be one index  since we re checking from the beginning of the string in the regex     I hope someone can use this     PS  This has been confirmed to work while using SLIM to reroute the URL

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You can use   SERVER  REQUEST URI   to get requested path   Then  you ll need to remove the parameters     uri parts   explode        SERVER  REQUEST URI    2    Then  add in the hostname and protocol  echo  http         SERVER  HTTP HOST      uri parts 0    You ll have to detect protocol as well  if you mix http  and https      That I leave as an exercise for you    SERVER  REQUEST SCHEME   returns the protocol    Putting it all together  echo   SERVER  REQUEST SCHEME             SERVER  HTTP HOST           explode        SERVER  REQUEST URI    2  0       returns  for example  http   example com directory file php   php com Documentation     SERVER     Server and execution environment information explode     Split a string by a string parse url     Parse a URL and return its components  possibly a better solution

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Why so complicated       baseurl    http   mysite com    url without get    baseurl   SERVER  PHP SELF      this should really do it man

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uri parts   explode        SERVER  REQUEST URI    2    request uri    uri parts 0   echo  request uri

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You can use   GET for url params  or   POST for post params  but the   REQUEST contains the parameters from   GET   POST and   COOKIE  if you want to hide the URI parameter from the user you can convert it to a session variable like so    lt  php  session start    if  isset   REQUEST  param     amp  amp   isset   SESSION  param               Store all parameters received       SESSION  param       REQUEST  param            Redirect without URI parameters     header  Location   file php        exit      gt   lt html gt   lt body gt   lt  php   echo   SESSION  param      gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    EDIT   use   SERVER  PHP SELF   to get the current file name or   SERVER  REQUEST URI   to get the requested URI

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Edit   T Todua provided a newer answer to this question using parse url   please upvote that answer so it can be more visible   Edit2  Someone has been spamming and editing about extracting scheme  so I ve added that at the bottom  parse url solution  The simplest solution would be  echo parse url   SERVER  quot REQUEST URI quot    PHP URL PATH     Parse url is a built-in php function  who s sole purpose is to extract specific components from a url  including the PATH  everything before the first     As such  it is my new  quot best quot  solution to this problem  strtok solution Stackoverflow  How to remove the querystring and get only the url   You can use strtok to get string before first occurence of    url strtok   SERVER  quot REQUEST URI quot           Performance Note  This problem can also be solved using explode   Explode tends to perform better for cases splitting the sring only on a single delimiter  Strtok tends to perform better for cases utilizing multiple delimiters   This application of strtok to return everything in a string before the first instance of a character will perform better than any other method in PHP  though WILL leave the querystring in memory  An aside about Scheme  http https  and   SERVER vars While OP did not ask about it  I suppose it is worth mentioning  parse url should be used to extract any specific component from the url  please see the documentation for that function  parse url  actual link  PHP URL SCHEME     Of note here  is that getting the full URL from a request is not a trivial task  and has many security implications    SERVER variables are your friend here  but they re a fickle friend  as apache nginx configs  php environments  and even clients  can omit or alter these variables  All of this is well out of scope for this question  but it has been thoroughly discussed  https   stackoverflow com a 6768831 1589379 It is important to note that these   SERVER variables are populated at runtime  by whichever engine is doing the execution   var run php  or  etc php  version  fpm    These variables are passed from the OS  to the webserver  apache nginx  to the php engine  and are modified and amended at each step  The only such variables that can be relied on are REQUEST URI  because it s required by php   and those listed in RFC 3875  see  PHP    SERVER   because they are required of webservers  please note  spaming links to your answers across other questions is not in good taste

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