Issue with REQUEST_URI running on WAMP

[jdbnd]

Folks,

 

I've got an issue with some website code (PHP inside one of my webpages) and was hoping somebody here might have an idea.

Here's the offending code:

 

<div id="rate-site"<?php if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=='/' ) echo ' class="invisible"'; ?>>

 

This is used to make the "rate-site" page element invisible on the home page, e.g. when the browser requests "http://localhost/wheremysiteis/"

 

The only problem is that it doesn't work. When I go to that URL, that's exactly what shows in the URL bar (it doesn't resolve to /index.php or anything) and I also tried replacing '/' with '/index.php' or '/index.php/' - makes no difference.

 

The code was originally written for PHP4, so maybe this function behaves differently in PHP5?

 

Help... please.... hopefully it's something simple and dumb.

 

Thanks,

Joe

[corbin]

Have you considered echoing out the variable to see what it's actually set to and then working with it from there?

[wildteen88]

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] returns everything after your domain, so if your url is http://localhost/wheremysiteis/ then $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] will return "/wheremysiteis/"

 

What are you trying to do with $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable? See if it ends in a forward slash?