I do not have PATH_INFO in $ _SERVER

Question

I use WampServer Version 2.2 on Windows 7, Apache version 2.2.22 and PHP version 5.3.13.

I try to use $this->url = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']; in the Request file, I received this error:

Notice: Undefined index: PATH_INFO in C:\wamp\www\site\core\Request.php on line 8

I tried to configure the httpd.conf file to add AcceptPathInfo On For PHP in php.ini so I added cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 but this did not fix the problem.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

PATH_INFO is undefined if you aren't using URL rewriting (or rather: referencing your PHP file 'as a directory'), see here: What exactly is PATH_INFO in PHP?

So if you're doing this: GET /foo/bar.php?query=foo then PATH_INFO will be undefined.

If you do this: GET /foo/bar.php/baz?query=foo then PATH_INFO will be defined as /baz.

Answer 2

for example ROOT = 'C:\wamp\www\mySite'

it may be helpful to you to get the same result ($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) if you use this code:

<?php
    class App{
        public static function get__PATH_INFO($path){
            $path_elements = explode("/", $path);
            $tempPI = "";
            if (isset($path_elements[2])){
                for ($i = 2 ;$i < count($path_elements); $i++ )
                    $tempPI .= "/".$path_elements[$i];
            }
            return $tempPI;
        }
    }
?>

then you call the function get__PATH_INFO() in another file:

$path_info = App::get__PATH_INFO($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);