i think there's some automatic online regex expression things that figure it out for you or, u may want to post to one of the perl groups, they LOVE this kinda of stuff. My brain is pretty much the size of a pea this days, functioning at 1%! :-)
This looks like a cool application to figure the regex stuff out. http://www.regexbuddy.com/ :-) ed On 12/29/06, Dan Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
edward potter wrote: > I have not really followed this discussion, but when i see something > like this: > "$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] will contain the full _filesystem_ path, > which is not what we're after." > > Can you just do a 1 line regex and pull out what you need? And you are > all set. > > :-) ed Sure thing ed, care to take a stab at it? Don't forget that the filesystem path may actually bear no relation at all to the web path (aliases and symlinks are enormous fun!) ;) Dan > On 12/29/06, Dan Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Michael Sims wrote: >> > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 5:11 pm, Joseph Crawford wrote: >> >> Chris, >> >> >> >> do you suggest hardcoding the filenames even when referencing the same >> >> file that is executing? >> > >> > There was a long thread about this in July 2005. >> > >> > Executive summary: PHP_SELF intentionally includes extra URL garbage >> (or >> > valuable URL variables, take your pick) tacked on by the user. >> Don't use >> > it without knowing what it does. >> > >> > Here's what you get when you hit the URL: >> > >> > http://example.com/info.php/testing1?testing2 : >> > >> > _SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] /info.php/testing1?testing2 >> > _SERVER["PHP_SELF"] /info.php/testing1 >> > _SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] /info.php >> > >> > Get it? If you don't want that extra stuff tacked on by the user, >> use the >> > correct _SERVER variable. If you use REQUEST_URI or PHP_SELF, be >> aware the >> > user can affect the contents of that variable. 99% of the time, you >> want >> > SCRIPT_NAME, not PHP_SELF. >> >> Actually, I have recently come across a 'fly in the ointment' for this >> approach. If you're running php as a cgi, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] will >> contain the full _filesystem_ path, which is not what we're after. >> >> 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. >> >> If anyone has a good solution or even any suggestions I'd love to hear >> them. >> >> Dan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
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