Request string without GET arguments [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can use $_GET for url params, or $_POST for post params, but the $_REQUEST contains the parameters from $_GET $_POST and $_COOKIE, if you want to hide the URI parameter from the user you can convert it to a session variable like so:

EDIT

use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to get the current file name or $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to get the requested URI