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[nycphp-talk] Re: PHP_SELF problems

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Fri Dec 29 13:41:45 EST 2006


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:13:00AM -0500, Dan Cech wrote:
> 
> I'm not 100% sure what the solution to this problem is.  Right now the
> only thing I can think of is to try and figure out the common part of
> PHP_SELF and SCRIPT_NAME, so as to drop both the extra filesystem info
> and any url garbage, but that seems pretty fragile to me.

I always use the __FILE__ constant.  Can't be touched by user input.  The 
basename() and dirname() are handy to use along with it.

--Dan

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