Get the full URL in PHP

Answer 1

Here is the basis of a more secure version of the accepted answer, using PHP's filter_input function, which also makes up for the potential lack of $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']:

$protocol_https = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'HTTPS', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$host = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'HTTP_HOST', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
$request_uri = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'REQUEST_URI', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
if(strlen($request_uri) == 0)
{
    $request_uri = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'SCRIPT_NAME', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
    $query_string = filter_input(INPUT_SERVER, 'QUERY_STRING', FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
    if($query_string)
    {
        $request_uri .= '?' . $query_string;
    }
}
$full_url = ($protocol_https ? 'https' : 'http') . '://' . $host . $request_uri;

You could use some different filters to tweak it to your liking.