How to get Current URL in PHP

Full Code

Here's the full code that you can use:

Definitions

Here's the definitions for the above code.

• $protocol checks if the current path contains http or https protocol
• $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] as per manual definition is the contents of the Host: header from the current request.
• $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] gets the full path of the page.

Example

I am running on localhost server and I have the current path as http://localhost/howto/edit.php?id=4. Running the above code, will give me the ff values: $protocol = http:// $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = localhost $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = /howto/edit.php?id=4 $URL = http://localhost/howto/edit.php?id=4 That ends this tutorial. Happy Coding :)