getting the current filename as a variable

[csbdeady]

Hi

A quickie if I may

How do I retrieve the current filename in a php script?

I'd like something along the lines of:

$lstrCurrentFile = <function to retrieve the name of the .php file that this line of code is in>

Thanks
-Colin

 

[danielhozac]

The variable $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] contains the URI to the PHP script that is being executed. //Daniel

 

[csbdeady]

Thanks for that.

I tried

echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

in a .php file but when run through the browser (IE5) while the rest of the php appears nothing in the above echo does.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
-Colin

 

[KarveR]

depends on version, try

echo $PHP_SELF; ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[csbdeady]

Hi again

Thanks for the advice earlier - with a twist of lemon its shown me the answer I needed.

As mentioned above, echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; returned blank. Looking at the output from phpinfo() I see that the PHP_SELF variable is blank (anyone know why?).

However the variable SCRIPT_NAME contains the URI I need instead.

Ta!
-Colin

 

[KarveR]

to check the difference between the old way and the new way:

echo &quot;phpself old :$PHP_SELF&quot;;
echo &quot;<br>&quot;;
echo &quot;phpself new: $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']&quot;; ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[danielhozac]

Are you using Apache or IIS with PHP? //Daniel

 

[KarveR]

Apache.

On my laptop is PWS with version 4.?? (the latest version)
which means I need to use $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]

use the code above and see which one returns the value you are looking for. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[rycamor]

Hello all: don't forget that PHP has a coupld of very useful &quot;magic constants&quot;: __FILE__ and __LINE__

<?php

echo &quot;I am file &quot; . __FILE__;

echo &quot;This is line &quot; . __LINE__;

?>

(now, if there were only a setting so we could use these inside includes or requires, but still reference the main file making the call, instead of the callee... Perl has such a construct. It would make debugging so much easier.)

See

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.php

and

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.php

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