I have some issues with my Apache rewrite rule and PHP.
Here is my rule:
RewriteRule /inscription /some/path/script.php [L]
Before rewrite I used PHP_SELF that gave me /some/path/script.php but now since rewrite, I got inscription.
How can I keep PHP_SELF as its original value? I need it to make some check on URL.
I thought to REQUEST_URI but it also give me inscription.
If you want to get script path then you have to use SCRIPT_NAME
This will be more reliable than using others vars, a var_dump($_SERVER); will give you an overview of the paths in the $_SERVER array
To know more about it you should check php documentation : http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php
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I am trying to get the value after the / in a URL in PHP.
I have tried using $_GET['va'], but this only works for the following,
http://localhost:8080/default?va=xxx
What I'm trying to get is this,
http://localhost:8080/default/xxx
How do I get the xxx value after a / in PHP.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Edit
Thanks to everyone who answered, I wasn't very clear in stating what I wanted. It appears what I was looking for is known as a pretty URL or a clean URL.
I solved this by following Pedro Amaral Couto's answer.
Here is what I did;
I modified my .htaccess file on my Apache server, and added the following code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ default.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ default.php?page=$1
Then I modified my default.php file to GET ['page']
<?php
echo $_GET['page'];
?>
And it returned the value after the "/".
You want to make what is called "pretty URLs" (and other names).
You need to configure the HTTP server appropriately, otherwise you'll get a 404 error. If you're using Apache, that means you may configure .htaccess with RewriteEngine module activated. You also need to add regular expressions.
There's already a question in StackOverflow concerning that subject:
Pretty URLs with .htaccess
Here are another relevant articles that may help:
http://www.desiquintans.com/cleanurls
https://medium.com/#ArthurFinkler/friendly-urls-for-static-php-files-using-htaccess-3264e7622373
You can see how it's done in Wordpress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Where.27s_my_.htaccess_file.3F
If you follow those, you won't need to change the PHP code, you may use $_GET to retrieve "xxx".
You are looking for: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
The URI which was given in order to access this page; for instance, '/index.html'.
basename(parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));
So the $_GET global variable is for parsing the query string.
What you're looking for is the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] global variable:
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url will now contain the full URL of your path. You'll need to use explode('/', $url) to break up that full URL into an array of little strings and parse it from there.
Example:
$pieces = explode('/', $url);
// this will get you the first string value after / in your URL
echo $pieces[0];
You can do in 2 ways.
1- do these steps
Get URL
Explode by /
Get Last element of array
2- Add .htaccess and map that value for some variable
RewriteRule ^default/(.*) page.php?variable=$1
and you can get $_GET['variable']
I am seeing this url format at most websites.
site.com/extension/rar
I wonder how they get the value='rar' using $_GET.
What I know is that $_GET can be use in here
site.com/extension/index.php?ext=rar
Now I wanted to change my way of calling a variable.
I wanted to apply what most websites do.
How can I call variable in the former?
Perhaps this works to get the "rar":
$name = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
I most likely being done using .htaccess
It is an Apache module that allows you "rewrite" urls at the engine level based on your own set of rules. So basically it rewrites URLs on the fly.
So, in your example you could have a file named .htaccess with the following contents: (there may be other options)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^extension/([a-z0-9]+)$ somefile.php?extension=$1 [L]
Basically, you are saying: If someone is looking for a URL that looks like "extension/somenumbers-and-letters" then show the contents of "somefile.php?extension=whatever-those-number-and-leters-are".
Do a search on Apache mod_rewrite to find more information.
So I have a .htaccess file which is performing a rewrite from /testscript1.php/testvar1/testvar2 to
/testscript2.php/testvar3/testvar4
(this is an over simplification but you get the idea).
Now though in my testscript2.php script when i access the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable i see /testscript1.php/testvar1/testvar2 rather than /testscript2.php/testvar3/testvar4 which is what I am looking for. i.e $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] contains the uri before the rewrite.
My question is simply, is there a way to access the rewritten uri?
Try using phpinfo() to get a view on what $_SERVER looks like on a rewritten page. Apache supplies quite a lot of info that may be useful.
On my test server, I get the following which may help you:
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING"]
$_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"]
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]
$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]
I would expect that at least one or a combination of those should be able to reliably give you the information you're looking for.
Cheers.
If you’re using the path info to pass an additional path, you can strip that suffix from PHP_SELF:
substr(parse_url($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], PHP_URL_PATH), -strlen($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']))
Or simply use SCRIPT_NAME since PHP_SELF = SCRIPT_NAME + PATH_INFO. Just take a look at the various values in $_SEVER.
I am using .htaccess RewriteRule on a website I'm working on.
Here is a sample of my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^about.htm$ /index.php?load=about&output=html [NC]
I would like to know if there is a way in my index.php file to detect
if the page have been called via a Rewrite or the user reached it
directly. I'm trying to avoid having to write some security check that
I am not even sure where to start.
If there is no way to make that "check" where should I start to secure
the file ?
My guess would be to make sure only load and output are
passed to the $_GET, make a strip_tags(), trim(), stripslashes() and remove quotes.
Thank you!
Look for REDIRECT_URL or REDIRECT_STATUS in the $_SERVER global. mod_rewrite should be adding these.
You can check the request uri, which is contained in the $_SERVER global variable.
I want to use htaccess to not only choose the script that processes the request, but also to change the request uri as php sees it. Can this be done?
For example:
RewriteRule /funstuff/ funstuff.php
...How can I change that RewriteRule or otherwise change my .htaccess file to get funstuff.php to think that the original request url was actually http://www.example.com/funstuff.php and not http://www.example.com/funstuff/?
The best I can see is
$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] or $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]
(Both should be fine)
in conjunction with
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
to get the full request. There seems to be no ready-made REQUEST_URI for this.