Retrieving URL and $_GET values

I'm having trouble retrieving a dyamic URL with two $_GET values.

One of the $_GET values is the page number so a typical URL will look like this;

I want to retrieve the whole URL without the page number!

If I use "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" then it doesn't retrieve the value of "value1" and the result is this:

I tried to use "$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']" which got the whole URL below, but I don't want the "&page=1" bit.

I need the URL so I can add the page number at the end depending on what the user selects and so far I have found this solution;

$myvalue = $_GET['value1'];
$viewurl = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?value1=".$myvalue;

PHP:

This solution gives me the URL minus the page number in the "$viewurl" variable, and it works fine, but is it the best/correct way of doing it?

Regards,
--Mike

 

Use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead.

 

Thanks for your input, but did you even bother reading my post? If you did then you would know that I tried that and didn't get the result I wanted.

 

I dont see your GET call for page ?

$myvalue = $_GET['value1'];
$mypage = $_GET['page'];
$viewurl = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?value1=".$myvalue."&page=".$mypage;

PHP:

 

That's because I don't want to GET the page.

 

opps then its

$myvalue = $_GET['value1'];

$viewurl = "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?value1=".$myvalue;

PHP:

 

Why do I need "http://" and "$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']" if it works fine without it?

 

I think I figured this out for myself.

The whole purpose of extracting part of the current URL is to input it into a hyper-link. If I include the two values in the quote above then it will give me a <b>absolute URL<b>. But as the script is only used to generate hyper-links within the same domain/server, excluding the above two values would simply make the "$viewurl" value into a relative URL. For this case it doesn't make any difference, but if anyone reading this wants to make external hyperlinks - make sure you use MyVodaFone's version.

Thanks MyVodaFone.

--Mike

 

If you get any problem then just type:

print_r($_SERVER); // to get each and every server request
print_r($_GET); // to get each and every GET type request
print_r($_POST); // to get each and every POST type request

similarly $_FILE also works.

They all print the data in array form enabling you to get every information you need while operating.