php get base url from $server code example
Example: base url in php
Try this:
<?php echo "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>
Learn more about the $_SERVER predefined variable.
If you plan on using https, you can use this:
function url(){
return sprintf(
"%s://%s%s",
isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != 'off' ? 'https' : 'http',
$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
);
}
echo url();
#=> http://127.0.0.1/foo
Per this answer, please make sure to configure your Apache properly so you can safely depend on SERVER_NAME.
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName example.com
UseCanonicalName on
</VirtualHost>
NOTE: If you're depending on the HTTP_HOST key (which contains user input), you still have to make some cleanup, remove spaces, commas, carriage return, etc. Anything that is not a valid character for a domain. Check the PHP builtin parse_url function for an example.