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<?

php
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
echo "<br>";
echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
?>

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The following table lists the most important elements that can go inside
$_SERVER:

Element/Code Description

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] Returns the filename of the currently executing scrip

$_SERVER['GATEWAY_INTERFACE'] Returns the version of the Common Gateway Interfa


using

$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] Returns the IP address of the host server

$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] Returns the name of the host server (such as www.w

$_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] Returns the server identification string (such as Apa

$_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] Returns the name and revision of the information pr


HTTP/1.1)

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] Returns the request method used to access the pag

$_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] Returns the timestamp of the start of the request (s

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] Returns the query string if the page is accessed via

$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'] Returns the Accept header from the current request

$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET'] Returns the Accept_Charset header from the curren


8,ISO-8859-1)

$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] Returns the Host header from the current request

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] Returns the complete URL of the current page (not r


user-agents support it)

$_SERVER['HTTPS'] Is the script queried through a secure HTTP protocol

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] Returns the IP address from where the user is viewin

$_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST'] Returns the Host name from where the user is viewi
$_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'] Returns the port being used on the user's machine t
the web server

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] Returns the absolute pathname of the currently exe

$_SERVER['SERVER_ADMIN'] Returns the value given to the SERVER_ADMIN direc


configuration file (if your script runs on a virtual hos
defined for that virtual host) (such as someone@w3

$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] Returns the port on the server machine being used b


communication (such as 80)

$_SERVER['SERVER_SIGNATURE'] Returns the server version and virtual host name wh


server-generated pages

$_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED'] Returns the file system based path to the current sc

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] Returns the path of the current script

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'] Returns the URI of the current page

PHP $_REQUEST
PHP $_REQUEST is used to collect data after submitting an HTML form.
The example below shows a form with an input field and a submit button. When
a user submits the data by clicking on "Submit", the form data is sent to the file
specified in the action attribute of the <form> tag. In this example, we point to
this file itself for processing form data. If you wish to use another PHP file to
process form data, replace that with the filename of your choice. Then, we can
use the super global variable $_REQUEST to collect the value of the input field:

Example
<html>
<body>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">


Name: <input type="text" name="fname">
<input type="submit">
</form>

<?php
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
// collect value of input field
$name = $_REQUEST['fname'];
if (empty($name)) {
echo "Name is empty";
} else {
echo $name;
}
}
?>

</body>
</html>

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PHP $_POST
PHP $_POST is widely used to collect form data after submitting an HTML form
with method="post". $_POST is also widely used to pass variables.

The example below shows a form with an input field and a submit button. When
a user submits the data by clicking on "Submit", the form data is sent to the file
specified in the action attribute of the <form> tag. In this example, we point to
the file itself for processing form data. If you wish to use another PHP file to
process form data, replace that with the filename of your choice. Then, we can
use the super global variable $_POST to collect the value of the input field:

Example
<html>
<body>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">


Name: <input type="text" name="fname">
<input type="submit">
</form>

<?php
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
// collect value of input field
$name = $_POST['fname'];
if (empty($name)) {
echo "Name is empty";
} else {
echo $name;
}
}
?>

</body>
</html>

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PHP $_GET
PHP $_GET can also be used to collect form data after submitting an HTML form
with method="get".

$_GET can also collect data sent in the URL.

Assume we have an HTML page that contains a hyperlink with parameters:


<html>
<body>

<a href="test_get.php?subject=PHP&web=W3schools.com">Test
$GET</a>

</body>
</html>

When a user clicks on the link "Test $GET", the parameters "subject" and "web"
are sent to "test_get.php", and you can then access their values in
"test_get.php" with $_GET.

The example below shows the code in "test_get.php":

Example
<html>
<body>

<?php
echo "Study " . $_GET['subject'] . " at " . $_GET['web'];
?>

</body>
</html>

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