Comments on: 8 useful server variables available in PHP

By: goyal

goyal — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:26:44 +0000

i am making a website, which will translate webpages in different lanaguages. the url of the served page will be as follows: http://www.bbgoyal.com/hi/index.php. in the above example, i dont wish to captute http://www.bbgoyal.com/hi/. tell me how to capture the remaining part?

By: chiladelphia

chiladelphia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:33:43 +0000

echo $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] doesn’t return any javascript variables that i’ve tacked on… bummer.

any idea how i can get the #tabview=tab1

By: Pakistani

Pakistani — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:22:12 +0000

I studied the all 8 variables. but i need to track the previous page so dynamically i should know the root. thanks you can help me on mjaved.khan@gmail.com

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:55:52 +0000

Here’s a tip.

Write for the user instead of the search engines. All that first paragraph said to me was ‘php, server variables, server, php, variable, server’. For Christ’s sake we know what you’re talking about, PHP & Server Variables.

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By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:13:42 +0000

I know document_root sucks in shared hosting…you can know more about these from here as well..

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/01/absolute-path-and-relative-path-file-inclusion-in-php.html

By: JT

JT — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:27:23 +0000

DOCUMENT_ROOT is evil. Depending on server configuration, this might have a trailing slash, or it might not. So, you might write a whole site on the basis that the trailing slash doesn’t exist, only to find that it does. I find it’s more effective from a portability perspective to create a globally accessible configuration constant which holds the document root path to avoid this.

REQUEST_URI suffers similarly. Again, my solution is a global config constant.

I would also install a browscap.ini and use get_browser() instead of HTTP_USER_AGENT.

Alternatively to SCRIPT_FILENAME, PHP magic constants __DIR__ and __FILE__ are very useful.

By: tevan

tevan — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:07:34 +0000

I’m not sure about the other variables listed, but I think $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is an exception in terms of its susceptibility to dangerous manipulation. the IP address of the remote machine can be spoofed, but it will always be in IP format, and therefore it’s safe to store the REMOTE_ADDR variable as-is in your database. that said, it wouldn’t hurt to validate the REMOTE_ADDR variable first, but that may not be necessary.

By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:16:28 +0000

I know some of these variables can be tampered and altered by faking http headers and you must take care of those things in your code…

By: Catalog Movies

Catalog Movies — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:42:33 +0000

Keep in mind all of these variables should have validation. As they can be manipulated and cause havoc.

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