[php] How to remove the querystring and get only the url?

Im using PHP to build the URL of the current page. Sometimes, URLs in the form of

www.mydomian.com/myurl.html?unwantedthngs

are requested. I want to remove the ? and everything that follows it (querystring), such that the resulting URL becomes:

www.mydomain.com/myurl.html

My current code is this:

<?php
function curPageURL() {
    $pageURL = 'http';
    if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
        $pageURL .= "s";
    }
    $pageURL .= "://";
    if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
        $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . ":" .
            $_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    } else {
        $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    }
    return $pageURL;
}
?>

You can try:

<?php
$this_page = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if (strpos($this_page, "?") !== false) $this_page = reset(explode("?", $this_page));
?>

To remove the query string from the request URI, replace the query string with an empty string:

function request_uri_without_query() {
    $result = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $query = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
    if(!empty($query)) {
        $result = str_replace('?' . $query, '', $result);
    }
    return $result;
}

If you want to get request path (more info):

echo parse_url($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])['path']

If you want to remove the query and (and maybe fragment also):

function strposa($haystack, $needles=array(), $offset=0) {
        $chr = array();
        foreach($needles as $needle) {
                $res = strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset);
                if ($res !== false) $chr[$needle] = $res;
        }
        if(empty($chr)) return false;
        return min($chr);
}
$i = strposa($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], ['#', '?']);
echo strrpos($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 0, $i);

You can use strtok to get string before first occurence of ?

$url = strtok($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], '?');

strtok() represents the most concise technique to directly extract the substring before the ? in the querystring. explode() is less direct because it must produce a potentially two-element array by which the first element must be accessed.

Some other techniques may break when the querystring is missing or potentially mutate other/unintended substrings in the url -- these techniques should be avoided.

A demonstration:

$urls = [
    'www.example.com/myurl.html?unwantedthngs#hastag',
    'www.example.com/myurl.html'
];

foreach ($urls as $url) {
    var_export(['strtok: ', strtok($url, '?')]);
    echo "\n";
    var_export(['strstr/true: ', strstr($url, '?', true)]); // not reliable
    echo "\n";
    var_export(['explode/2: ', explode('?', $url, 2)[0]]);  // limit allows func to stop searching after first encounter
    echo "\n";
    var_export(['substr/strrpos: ', substr($url, 0, strrpos( $url, "?"))]);  // not reliable; still not with strpos()
    echo "\n---\n";
}

Output:

array (
  0 => 'strtok: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
array (
  0 => 'strstr/true: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
array (
  0 => 'explode/2: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
array (
  0 => 'substr/strrpos: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
---
array (
  0 => 'strtok: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
array (
  0 => 'strstr/true: ',
  1 => false,                       // bad news
)
array (
  0 => 'explode/2: ',
  1 => 'www.example.com/myurl.html',
)
array (
  0 => 'substr/strrpos: ',
  1 => '',                          // bad news
)
---

Most Easiest Way

$url = 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/ROipDjNYK4k?rel=0&autoplay=1';
$url_arr = parse_url($url);
$query = $url_arr['query'];
print $url = str_replace(array($query,'?'), '', $url);

//output
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ROipDjNYK4k

could also use following as per the php manual comment

$_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

Please note this is working only for certain PHP environment only and follow the bellow comment from that page for more information;

Purpose: The URL path name of the current PHP file, path-info is N/A and excluding URL query string. Includes leading slash.

Caveat: This is before URL rewrites (i.e. it's as per the original call URL).

Caveat: Not set on all PHP environments, and definitely only ones with URL rewrites.

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: No

best solution:

echo parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);

No need to include your http://domain.com in your if you're submitting a form to the same domain.

Assuming you still want to get the URL without the query args (if they are not set), just use a shorthand if statement to check with strpos:

$request_uri = strpos( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?' ) !== false ? strtok( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], '?' ) : $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Here is a simple solution if you are using Laravel:

Str::before($request->getRequestUri(), '?')

$val = substr( $url, 0, strrpos( $url, "?"));

Try this:

$urrl=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

or

$urrl=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

Because I deal with both relative and absolute URLs, I updated veritas's solution like the code below.
You can try yourself here: https://ideone.com/PvpZ4J

function removeQueryStringFromUrl($url) {
    if (substr($url,0,4) == "http") {
        $urlPartsArray = parse_url($url);
        $outputUrl = $urlPartsArray['scheme'] . '://' . $urlPartsArray['host'] . ( isset($urlPartsArray['path']) ? $urlPartsArray['path'] : '' );
    } else {
        $URLexploded = explode("?", $url, 2);
        $outputUrl = $URLexploded[0];
    }
    return $outputUrl;
}

Try this

$url_with_querystring = 'www.mydomian.com/myurl.html?unwantedthngs';
$url_data = parse_url($url_with_querystring);
$url_without_querystring = str_replace('?'.$url_data['query'], '', $url_with_querystring);

You can use the parse_url build in function like that:

$baseUrl = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);

You'll need at least PHP Version 5.4 to implement this solution without exploding into a variable on one line and concatenating on the next, but an easy one liner would be:

$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].explode('?', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 2)[0];

Server Variables: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
Array Dereferencing: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/functionarraydereferencing

Use PHP Manual - parse_url() to get the parts you need.

Edit (example usage for @Navi Gamage)

You can use it like this:

<?php
function reconstruct_url($url){    
    $url_parts = parse_url($url);
    $constructed_url = $url_parts['scheme'] . '://' . $url_parts['host'] . $url_parts['path'];

    return $constructed_url;
}

?>

Edit (second full example):

Updated function to make sure scheme will be attached and none notice msgs appear:

function reconstruct_url($url){    
    $url_parts = parse_url($url);
    $constructed_url = $url_parts['scheme'] . '://' . $url_parts['host'] . (isset($url_parts['path'])?$url_parts['path']:'');

    return $constructed_url;
}


$test = array(
    'http://www.mydomian.com/myurl.html?unwan=abc',
    'http://www.mydomian.com/myurl.html',
    'http://www.mydomian.com',
    'https://mydomian.com/myurl.html?unwan=abc&ab=1'
);

foreach($test as $url){
    print_r(parse_url($url));
}       

Will return:

Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www.mydomian.com
    [path] => /myurl.html
    [query] => unwan=abc
)
Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www.mydomian.com
    [path] => /myurl.html
)
Array
(
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www.mydomian.com
)
Array
(
    [path] => mydomian.com/myurl.html
    [query] => unwan=abc&ab=1
)

This is the output from passing example urls through parse_url() with no second parameter (for explanation only).

And this is the final output after constructing url using:

foreach($test as $url){
    echo reconstruct_url($url) . '<br/>';
}   

Output:

http://www.mydomian.com/myurl.html
http://www.mydomian.com/myurl.html
http://www.mydomian.com
https://mydomian.com/myurl.html