There are a lot of situations where you might need to get the URL of a webpage that any user might be currently visiting. For instance, a project may require you to dynamically generate the title of a webpage based on its URL. There are many ways in which we can obtain the URL of a webpage and we will discuss them all in detail in this tutorial.<\/p>\n
The $_SERVER superglobal array<\/a> in PHP contains a lot of useful information like the headers, timestamp for the request, paths and script locations. For this particular tutorial, we will be looking into several indices of the You can use the value of Similarly, you can use The only thing that we need to know now is if the URL was served over HTTP or HTTPS. This can be done by checking the value of The example below provides a simple solution to get the full URL of current page the user is visiting with the query string intact.<\/p>\n PHP<\/p>\n I have tested the above code on a test page that I created and it produced the following output.<\/p>\n PHP<\/p>\n As you can see, the URL contains all the parameters of the query string. The only problem is that we cannot get the value of any fragment identifier present in the URL. This is because the fragment identifier is not passed to the server at all. If you need access to the fragment identifier you will have to do it client-side using JavaScript.<\/p>\n If you have enabled mod_rewrite<\/a>, you can also use PHP<\/p>\n We already have the whole URL of the current page thanks to the code we wrote in first section. Even though we got the URL without the query string in the second section, that method only works if mod_rewrite has been enabled. If you can\u2019t make any assumptions about mod_rewrite, you should get the whole URL and then remove the query string using inbuilt PHP functions.<\/p>\n You can easily obtain the query string of a URL, with the help of PHP<\/p>\n$_SERVER<\/code> array that can be used to construct the full URL of the current page with the parameters.<\/p>\n$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']<\/code> to get the contents of the Host:<\/strong> header for current request. In other words, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']<\/code> returns the domain name of the current page. <\/p>\n$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']<\/code> to get the URI that was given in order to access the current page. This value will include the query string of the URL as well.<\/p>\n$_SERVER['HTTPS']<\/code>. When a page is served over HTTPS, this element is set to an non-empty value. However, there is a catch. When using ISAPI with IIS, the value of this element will be set to off. What we need to do in this situation is check if a value has been set and verify that it is not equal to off<\/code>. <\/p>\n$protocol = isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off' ? 'https' : 'http';\n$full_url = $protocol.\":\/\/$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]\";\necho $full_url;\n<\/code><\/pre>\nURL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\n\nURL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views\n\nURL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views#something\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views<\/code><\/pre>\nGet the Full URL Without Query String Using $_SERVER[\u2018SCRIPT_URI\u2019]<\/h2>\n
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI']<\/code> to get the whole URL at once. The only drawback of this method is that you will get the URL without the query string. However, if you were planning to discard the query string anyway, this is an elegant one line solution.<\/p>\n$full_url = ['SCRIPT_URI'];\necho $full_url;\n\n\/* URL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\n\nURL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\n\nURL in address bar \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views#something\nURL output by above code \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php *\/\n<\/code><\/pre>\nRemove Query String From the URL Using str_replace()<\/h2>\n
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']<\/code>. Once you have the query string, you can use the string_replace() function in PHP<\/a> to replace it with an empty string. The following example should make it clear.<\/p>\n\/\/ Test URL \u2014 https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views\n\n$protocol = isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] !== 'off' ? 'https' : 'http';\n\n\/\/ $full_url = https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php?page=12&sort=views\n$full_url = $protocol.\":\/\/$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]\";\n\n\/\/ $query_string = page=12&sort=views\n$query_string = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];\n$params = '?'.$query_string;\n\n\n\/\/ $no_params_url = https:\/\/tutorialio.com\/php\/faqs\/index.php\n$no_params_url = str_replace($params, '', $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]);\n<\/code><\/pre>\nRemove Query String From the URL using explode()<\/h2>\n