Re: How to get the URL into a var?

Thanx Francois this brought me on the propper road. Works fine now! Cheers Andy "Francois Jordaan" <francois@fjordaan.uklinux.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:MABBIKMJCKKOJNLMMPJHKECPCIAA.francois@fjordaan.uklinux.net... > > I am trying to find out which dir the user is browsing. How > > can I get the > > URL into a var? I tryed path_info, but it only returns the filename. > > I'm quite new to PHP, but I've had to do the same thing recently. > Someone mentioned > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php > ...but as far as I could tell none of them would give only "subapp" in > your example. > > This may work for you: > > $page_url = $REQUEST_URI; > $url_array = parse_url ($page_url); > $directory = dirname ($url_array["path"]); > print("Dir the user is browsing: $directory"); > > Hope that helps, > > francois >