Actually, PATH_INFO
is related to the Apache Web Server serving PHP pages and not PHP per-say.
PATH_INFO
is an environment variable set by Apache when the AcceptPathInfo
directive is turned on. It will contain trailing pathname information that follows an actual filename (or non-existent file in an existing directory) will be accepted or rejected. Environment variables are then passed on to the Apache/CGI module in charge of rendering the page.
The variable is accessible in PHP using $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']
.
For example, assume the location /test/
points to a directory that contains only the single file here.html
. Then requests for /test/here.html/more
and /test/nothere.html/more
both collect /more
as PATH_INFO
.
Apache Core Documentation: AcceptPathInfo
Directive