Get current filename with URL parameters

Question

Say the user is loading the following page: www.example.com/myDirectory/myPage.php?answer=yes
And I want to use PHP to get myPage.php?answer=yes from that. However, basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) only returns myPage.php. How would I do that?

Answer 1

You can append the query string after you get it as an environment variable:

$myurl = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "?" . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

If you need to consider the possibility of no query string, add a conditional test:

$myurl = strlen($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ? basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

Answer 2

it is easier?:

basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])

Answer 3

For URLs with trailing parameters the following will place the first part of the current URL (i.e. the part before ?) within the variable $current_url[0] and then print it out.

<?
$current_url = explode("?", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo $current_url[0] ;
?>