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[shamuraq]

Hi guys,

 

I'm trying to script a PDF conversion tool for every of my pages. When i try to echo the page/file name to the PDF script using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] etc. it keeps returning "index.php". Is there anyway i can point directly to the files that i placed the button for pdf conversion?

 

Thanx

[.josh]

you mean like an absolute url path?

 

echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

 

[Rithiur]

I'm not sure what exactly you're after, but you if you need the path to the currently executing file in php, you can use the __FILE__ magic constant.

 

You can read more about it here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php

[gffg4574fghsDSGDGKJYM]

If you are looking for the previous page you can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] but as php.net say it's unreliable :

 

The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it cannot really be trusted.

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

 

You should store in a database the pdf file name and use a post form with a id of the row.