PHP 8.3.4 Released!

apache_lookup_uri

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

apache_lookup_uriPerform a partial request for the specified URI and return all info about it

Description

apache_lookup_uri(string $filename): object|false

This performs a partial request for a URI. It goes just far enough to obtain all the important information about the given resource.

This function is supported when PHP is installed as an Apache module webserver.

Parameters

filename

The filename (URI) that's being requested.

Return Values

An object of related URI information. The properties of this object are:

  • status
  • the_request
  • status_line
  • method
  • content_type
  • handler
  • uri
  • filename
  • path_info
  • args
  • boundary
  • no_cache
  • no_local_copy
  • allowed
  • send_bodyct
  • bytes_sent
  • byterange
  • clength
  • unparsed_uri
  • mtime
  • request_time

Returns false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 apache_lookup_uri() example

<?php
$info
= apache_lookup_uri('index.php?var=value');
print_r($info);

if (
file_exists($info->filename)) {
echo
'file exists!';
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

stdClass Object
(
    [status] => 200
    [the_request] => GET /dir/file.php HTTP/1.1
    [method] => GET
    [mtime] => 0
    [clength] => 0
    [chunked] => 0
    [content_type] => application/x-httpd-php
    [no_cache] => 0
    [no_local_copy] => 1
    [unparsed_uri] => /dir/index.php?var=value
    [uri] => /dir/index.php
    [filename] => /home/htdocs/dir/index.php
    [args] => var=value
    [allowed] => 0
    [sent_bodyct] => 0
    [bytes_sent] => 0
    [request_time] => 1074282764
)
file exists!

add a note

User Contributed Notes 3 notes

up
2
tester
16 years ago
bug: with apache 2, apache_lookup_uri("/directory") spits out a warning and fails to return anything. apache_lookup_uri("/directory/") works.

another bug: virtual("something") forces a header flush. I know it's documented, but it would be rather wonderful if it didn't do this. You never ever want to flush headers when you're using virtual() to include a dynamic file such as a PHP or Perl file, which excludes virtual() from being used on most of any website's contents :-(.
up
1
niels dot kootstra at gmail dot com
16 years ago
It's a very usefull function but it doesn't show all outputs. For example I only see:
[status]
[the_request]
[method]
[mtime]
[clength]
[chunked]
[content_type]
[no_cache]
[no_local_copy]
[unparsed_uri]
[uri]
[filename]
[path_info]
[allowed]
[sent_bodyct]
[bytes_sent]
[request_time]
up
0
redbeard at mdjohnson dot nospam dot us
20 years ago
A useful feature is that if you have content negotiation on (Options MultiViews) Apache will resolve the negotiation for you if possible. Thus www.example.com/blah will resolve to /base/blah.php or /base/blah.html or even /base/blah.en.html as appropriate.
To Top