On a couple of the pages on my website I use this to redirect

header("Location: http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ."/results.php");

and it works fine one my test server and the actuall server it is on. But I gave my friend a copy to test on their test server and the redirect part is causing them problems. It seems to be missing out which directory the files are in, but it does get the host.

so i tried putting this on the page but it displays nothing

echo dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

But it should show the folder it is in.

I have been searching but cannot find anything about why it isnt working.

Anyone else had this problem?
Any ideas?

Just done a test, I was running php 4.3.0 and my friend was running 4.3.3. So I uninstalled the php on my test server and installed php 4.3.3 because this was the only difference between our setup. And not I get the same problem that they were getting. So it looks like it could be something to do with 4.3.3version.

Is it done in a different way now?

No longer dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])?

Or is it to do with php and should I get them to install version 4.3.0 since it seems to work ok?

I'd submit a bug report to PHP if you think there's a bug in 4.3.3. Give them a simple sample snippet (the one you posted seems adequate) and tell them the output you're getting for both versions. I can't imagine that it'd suddenly STOP working in 4.3.3, especially since that function's been around since PHP3.



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

For what it's worth, I just installed 4.3.3 on my Win2K machine and the script works fine. I'm not using header(), I'm using echo():

<?php
echo "<pre>\n";
echo "\$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is: {$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\n";
echo "dirname(\$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) is: ";
echo dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
echo "\n";
echo "</pre>\n";
?>

My output on PHP versions 4.3.1, 4.3.2, and 4.3.3 are all the same:

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is: /~phptest/dirname.php
dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) is: /~phptest



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

I've had the same problem. Usually only on my develop. machine. Which runs Xitami/PHP 4.3.3

I wrote this fix:

if (!isset($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]) || empty($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])) {

$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];

}

My use of PHP_SELF usually does not rely on sub-folders or anything more than the script name.. and I am sure there are other environment variables that would fit the bill.

I would have to agree with Nik.. it is likely a bug.

: )
Rich

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Thanks for the advice guys I have now submitted it.

I think it is specific to xitami because I have just finished testing it on IIS and that worked fine.

Thanks again