Answers for "php server variables"

php server name

echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo "<br>";
// echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];

php server variables

//Just a PHP file to put on your local server (as I don't have enough memory)
// Write the code by Md Abdur Rakib

<?php
$indicesServer = array('PHP_SELF',
'argv',
'argc',
'GATEWAY_INTERFACE',
'SERVER_ADDR',
'SERVER_NAME',
'SERVER_SOFTWARE',
'SERVER_PROTOCOL',
'REQUEST_METHOD',
'REQUEST_TIME',
'REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT',
'QUERY_STRING',
'DOCUMENT_ROOT',
'HTTP_ACCEPT',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING',
'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE',
'HTTP_CONNECTION',
'HTTP_HOST',
'HTTP_REFERER',
'HTTP_USER_AGENT',
'HTTPS',
'REMOTE_ADDR',
'REMOTE_HOST',
'REMOTE_PORT',
'REMOTE_USER',
'REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER',
'SCRIPT_FILENAME',
'SERVER_ADMIN',
'SERVER_PORT',
'SERVER_SIGNATURE',
'PATH_TRANSLATED',
'SCRIPT_NAME',
'REQUEST_URI',
'PHP_AUTH_DIGEST',
'PHP_AUTH_USER',
'PHP_AUTH_PW',
'AUTH_TYPE',
'PATH_INFO',
'ORIG_PATH_INFO') ;

echo '<table cellpadding="10">' ;
foreach ($indicesServer as $arg) {
    if (isset($_SERVER[$arg])) {
        echo '<tr><td>'.$arg.'</td><td>' . $_SERVER[$arg] . '</td></tr>' ;
    }
    else {
        echo '<tr><td>'.$arg.'</td><td>-</td></tr>' ;
    }
}
echo '</table>' ;

/*

That will give you the result of each variable like (if the file is server_indices.php at the root and Apache Web directory is in E:\web) :

PHP_SELF    /server_indices.php
argv    -
argc    -
GATEWAY_INTERFACE    CGI/1.1
SERVER_ADDR    127.0.0.1
SERVER_NAME    localhost
SERVER_SOFTWARE    Apache/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP/5.3.13
SERVER_PROTOCOL    HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD    GET
REQUEST_TIME    1361542579
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT    -
QUERY_STRING   
DOCUMENT_ROOT    E:/web/
HTTP_ACCEPT    text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET    ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING    gzip,deflate,sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE    fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
HTTP_CONNECTION    keep-alive
HTTP_HOST    localhost
HTTP_REFERER    http://localhost/
HTTP_USER_AGENT    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
HTTPS    -
REMOTE_ADDR    127.0.0.1
REMOTE_HOST    -
REMOTE_PORT    65037
REMOTE_USER    -
REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER    -
SCRIPT_FILENAME    E:/web/server_indices.php
SERVER_ADMIN    [email protected]
SERVER_PORT    80
SERVER_SIGNATURE   
PATH_TRANSLATED    -
SCRIPT_NAME    /server_indices.php
REQUEST_URI    /server_indices.php
PHP_AUTH_DIGEST    -
PHP_AUTH_USER    -
PHP_AUTH_PW    -
AUTH_TYPE    -
PATH_INFO    -
ORIG_PATH_INFO    -

*/
?>

php server function

<?php
  // PHP $_SERVER['...']; method
  
  // PHP file name
  echo 'PHP file name: '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'<br>';
  // Server name
  echo 'Server name: '.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'<br>';
  // HTTP host
  echo 'HTTP host: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'<br>';
  // Refering link
  echo 'Refering link: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].'<br>';
  // User agent
  echo 'User agent: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].'<br>';
  // Script name
  echo 'Script name: '.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
  
  // The rest is optional

  if($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=='/filename.php'){
    //If there is no folder
    echo 'No folder'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
  } else{
    // Echo the name of the folder containing the PHP file
    echo 'PHP file name: '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
  }
  
  // The same if statements can be used for the script name
  
  if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=='/filename.php'){
    // If there is no folder
    echo 'No folder'.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
  } else{
    // Echo the name of the folder containing the PHP file
    echo 'PHP file name: '.$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
  }
  
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  // I hope you found this helpful! 
?>