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Getting the current web site’s address is pretty simple and straight forward in PHP, no crazy functions nor regular expressions are needed. Below I demonstrate how to achieve this one line of code. Also I shall show you how to retrieve the page’s path from the root.

1. Get the current website address.

$website = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

Woah that was simple! Now the current folder path.

2. Get the current folder path.

$filePath= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Did you catch that? It was so fast.

Put the first part and the second together (and of course add an “http://”) and you have the current file’s complete url!

$fileWebAddress= "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];