php, jquery, load function and page address

Question

Hi,

i have two files. In first (parent, address: www.myaddress.com/fun/test.php) is jQuery function:

<script type="text/javascript">         
$(function(){
    $(document).ready(function()
    {
        import_f = setInterval(function()
        {
            $('#file').load('fun2.php?id='+ Math.random());

        }, 5000);       
    });
});         
</script>

When i print in fun2.php file full page address, i get: /fun2.php?id=0.31089064538474454.

How get paren page address. (www.myaddress.com/fun/test.php).

Parent's address may always be another, so I need to find a function that.

Thanks

Answer 1

is this what your looking for?

function getParentAddress(){
  return window.location;
}

Answer 2

The current address of the page is stored in the window.location property.

console.log(window.location)

run on this page yields

hash: ""
host: "stackoverflow.com"
hostname: "stackoverflow.com"
href: "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4031148/php-jquery-load-function-and-page-address"
origin: "http://stackoverflow.com"
pathname: "/questions/4031148/php-jquery-load-function-and-page-address"
port: ""
protocol: "http:"
search: ""

Answer 3

Sounds like you are looking for the HTTP Referrer. You can get it via $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].

But note that this can be changed by the user to something else, so you actually cannot rely on that.

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Maybe it is better to send the current URL via the Ajax call, along with the ID:

$('#file').load('fun2.php?id='+ Math.random() +'&parent=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location));

But again, if one really wants to, he can change this too. So you can never 100% trust that one request is really coming from a certain page.

Reference: window.location, encodeURIComponent