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Answer 1

+1 A:

you can get the URL by

'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

or

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI']

might work on some platforms.

the title is something that the PHP program gives back to the browser via HTML:

<html><head><title>title is here</title> ...

so it is not something that you "get" unless you get something from the DB and send back to the browser.

Update... do you mean the title of page that leads to your php file? (the user clicks on that page to get to your php file.) in that case, you can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] but it is not guaranteed to contain any data (but most of the time it will).

動靜能量 2010-06-13 11:13:23

I am using and i need to get the page url and title outside the loop

Aakash Chakravarthy 2010-06-13 11:31:33

Answer 2

+1 A:

The URL of the current page, from php, is: $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

As @Jian Lin says the title isn't readily available to php.

Using jQuery (for simplicity's sake), you can access the page's title with:

    $(document).ready(
        function() {
            var pageTitle = $(document).attr('title');
            alert(pageTitle);
        }
    );

David Thomas 2010-06-13 11:21:29

Answer 3

A:

Here are few super global variables for getting url info:

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] will be same - /index.php. It is irrespective of the actual URI ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) used to access the site.

As it returns the actual script name, it fails provide additional path information that may be present. So if the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is /index.php/big/directory/ then too the $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] will be same - /index.php.

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] is supported on all platforms

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

This is the filename of the currently executing script, relative to the document root. However, unlike $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], it provides additional path information like $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] when the actual php file is present in the path. So when the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is /index.php/big/directory/ then $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will be /index.php/big/directory/.

However if all the URI's under http://www.example.com/ is mapped to http://www.example.com/index.php, then, for example, http://www.example.com/abc/def will return /index.php like $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']. Note that $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] data is ignored for this request.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

It will give you entire url including query string vars.

Title of the page:

There is no built-in functionality to get title of the page, however, you can use the HTML Simple DOM to read the contents of <h2.

Example:

$title = str_get_html('<title></title>');

Now, you can use $title however, you like. Visit the their site for more info about it.

Sarfraz 2010-06-13 11:26:01

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