Category: PHP

the parse_url php function will split a url into an array of url fragments

$url = "http://kruxor.com/path/?argument=value#anchor";
var_dump(parse_url($url));

parse_url example

Use parse_url on the current url

You can extract the current url bits using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; (which only gives you the request uri)

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
var_dump(parse_url($url));

parse_url current url example

on further testing it seems that getting the full url in php is more of a pain than the above code

you need to do something like this to get the url

$current_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? "https" : "http") . "://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";

so the example now is

$current_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? "https" : "http") . "://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
var_dump(parse_url($current_url));

while is javascript all you need to do is window.location.href

ok so what if i needed to just extract the /code/ part of the url?

one way you can do this is with explode() and you dont even need the parse_url so all this was a waste of time! :P (😋)

$path_array = explode("/",$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]);
var_dump($path_array);

so in this case all i need is $path_array['1']