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Doc Bug #61303 $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] description
Submitted: 2012-03-06 18:17 UTC Modified: 2013-12-18 21:38 UTC
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From: pl1 at liscovius dot de Assigned: philstu (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
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 [2012-03-06 18:17 UTC] pl1 at liscovius dot de 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/reserved.variables.server#refsect1-reserved.variables.server-indices
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The description of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is ambiguous and differs too between english and german documentation.

In the example is an url given, but it is a quite bad example.
Is the called script test.php?
Or is the script foo.bar, as the reader must assume when reading the current description ? (which wouldn't normally call the PHP interpreter.., unless someone tweaked server/htaccess configuration especially for this example)

I did my own similiar test and I got 'test.php' with http requests, regardless what i append in the url /test.php , /test.php/bla, or /test.php?bla=1

and i got no

/test.php/bla 
(english documentation)
or 
/test.php/bla/
(as in german php documentation)

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server.xml.patch (last revision 2013-05-06 23:37 UTC by pete at petermcdonald dot co dot uk)

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 [2013-05-03 01:40 UTC] pete at petermcdonald dot co dot uk 
Agreed the example should be something more along the lines of

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] in a script at the address http://example.com/somedir/foo.php 
would be /somedir/foo.php. The __FILE__ constant contains the full path and 
filename of the current (i.e. included) file.
 [2013-12-18 21:38 UTC] philstu@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: philstu
 [2013-12-18 21:38 UTC] philstu@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 [2020-02-07 06:08 UTC] phpdocbot@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=doc/en.git;a=commit;h=b2ae70c4949c47eb05b1de06da67010bb72073d6
Log: Fixed bug #61303 - $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] description
 
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