[thelist] PHP $SCRIPT_NAME or

[Dougal Campbell]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, kristina wrote:

> evolters,
>
>   Sorry I seem to be on a bit of a list-hogging
>   mission at the moment...!
>
>   I'm trying to get a little text navigation menu
>   working that gets included via php.
>
>   I also want it to test and see what page is open
>   and unlink that menu item.  - So that visitors
>   know where they are on the site.

I did this exact thing on my War on Spam site several years ago
(http://spam.gunters.org/)

You can find my navbar code here:
  http://pulsar.jb.com/sklar-php/code68.html

I used $REQUEST_URI, which would more properly be
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in more modern versinos of PHP.

However, using REQUEST_URI could have a drawback, because it will
include any query string information, as well. So if you are using query
strings like 'http://example.com/myscript.php?foo=bar', you'd have to do
additional parsing to strip it out.

In that case, it would probably be easier to just use
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] or $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].

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