Posted by Chung Leong on 11/16/16 11:47

Alan Little wrote:
> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
> Chung Leong of comp.lang.php make plain:
>
> > Alan Little wrote:
> >> I love the __FILE__ constant; it's been enormously useful. Is there a
> >> constant that would be the equivalent of $PHP_SELF? That's also a
> >> useful value, but according to the docs, "...may or may not [exist]
> >> in $_SERVER." In a distributed app, may or may not doesn't fly. I'm
> >> surprised, if there isn't a reliable way to retrieve this value.
> >
> > PHP_SELF should always be present in a web environment.
>
> I agree, but it isn't always. I've run into trouble relying on it in Phorm.

Under what situation do you not see PHP_SELF? It's obviously possible
that a certain version of a SAPI module is buggy. The point is it's
supposed to be there.

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