Conditional Action based on Current URL

[fuckoff222]

Hello All,

What I want to do is make a conditional action (IF) based on the current URL of where the user is on my website. If possible I would like it to be based on the relative web URL, for example /dir1/ , and not a server path. Also, I need the condition to be true in any other directories within this directory. So that anything with domain.com/dir1/ will cause this IF statement to be true.

Is there any way to do this? I looked around for a while and tried different things out, but I could not get anything to work.

Thanks a lot,
- Vince

 

[kenrbnsn]

Well, what have you tried?

Ken

 

[DRJ478]

PHP usually has the superglobal array $_SERVER which contains the information you are looking for. The info is web server specific, I just can speak from my experience with Apache.
Write a few lines and inspect the vars and how they change with the URL:

<?php
echo "<pre>";
print_r($_SERVER);
echo "</pre>";
?>

Look at SCRIPT_URL. A substr() or strpos() is the best way to examine the string for presence of the desired 'needle'

 

[fuckoff222]

Okay if this were Java I would be done by now. But PHP just seems really cumbersome at times. The REQUEST_URI element in the _SERVER array returns the relative document server path, including the filename. So instead of /dir/dir2, it gives me /dir/dir2/file.ext . How can I get rid of the filename, and just get the current directory? There doesn't seem to be a variable that just gives the current directory name without the filename at the end.

 

[kenrbnsn]

Did you look at the function pathinfo()?

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

This should give you what you're looking for...

Ken