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Data: $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

Data type: String

Purpose: The URL path name of the current PHP file, including path-info (see $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) and excluding URL query string. Includes leading slash.

Caveat: This is after URL rewrites (i.e. it's as seen by PHP, not necessarily the original call URL).

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: Tenuous (emulated to contain just the exact call path of the CLI script, with whatever exotic relative pathname you may call with, not made absolute and not normalised or pre-resolved)

Data: $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']

Data type: String

Purpose: The URL path name of the current PHP file, excluding path-info and excluding URL query string. Includes leading slash.

Caveat: This is after URL rewrites (i.e. it's as seen by PHP, not necessarily the original call URL).

Caveat: Not set on all PHP environments, may need setting via preg_replace('#\.php/.*#', '.php', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: Tenuous (emulated to contain just the exact call path of the CLI script, with whatever exotic relative pathname you may call with, not made absolute and not normalised or pre-resolved)

Data: $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL']

Data type: String

Purpose: The URL path name of the current PHP file, path-info is N/A and excluding URL query string. Includes leading slash.

Caveat: This is before URL rewrites (i.e. it's as per the original call URL).

Caveat: Not set on all PHP environments, and definitely only ones with URL rewrites.

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: No

Data: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Data type: String

Purpose: The URL path name of the current PHP file, including path-info and including URL query string. Includes leading slash.

Caveat: This is before URL rewrites (i.e. it's as per the original call URL). *

*: I've seen at least one situation where this is not true (there was another $_SERVER variable to use instead supplied by the URL rewriter), but the author of the URL rewriter later fixed it so probably fair to dismiss this particular note.

Caveat: Not set on all PHP environments, may need setting via $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] . '?' . http_build_query($_GET) [if $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] is set, and imperfect as we don't know what GET parameters were originally passed vs which were injected in the URL rewrite] --otherwise-- $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . http_build_query($_GET).

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: No

Data: $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']

Data type: String

Purpose: Find the path-info, which is data after the .php filename in the URL call. It's a strange concept.

Caveat: Some environments may not support it, it is best avoided unless you have complete server control

Works on web mode: Yes

Works on CLI mode: No

Note that if something is not set it may be missing from $_SERVER, or it may be blank, so use PHP's 'empty' function for your test.