use parse_url to get entire url instead of part of it

Question

I was trying to make this function more comprehensive to parse more of a url

Currently the function I have is this

function _pagepeeker_format_url($url = FALSE) {
if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) === FALSE) {
return FALSE;
}

// try to parse the url
$parsed_url = parse_url($url);
if (!empty($parsed_url)) {
$host = (!empty($parsed_url['host'])) ? $parsed_url['host'] : '';
$port = (!empty($parsed_url['port'])) ? ':' . $parsed_url['port'] : '';
$path = (!empty($parsed_url['path'])) ? $parsed_url['path'] : '';
$query = (!empty($parsed_url['query'])) ? '?' . $parsed_url['query'] : '';
$fragment = (!empty($parsed_url['fragment'])) ? '#' . $parsed_url['fragment'] : '';
return $host . $port . $path . $query . $fragment;

}

return FALSE;
}  

This function turns urls that look like this

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.beautyjunkiesunite.com/WP/2012/05/30/whats-new-anastasia-beverly-hills-lash-genius/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgAIAEoATAAOABA3t-Y_gRIAlgBYgVlbi1VUw&cd=F7w9TwL-6ao&usg=AFQjCNG2rbJCENvRR2_k6pL9RntjP66Rvg

into this

http://www.google.com/url

Is there anyway to make this array return the entire url instead of just part of it ?

I have looked at the parse_url php page and it helps and searched the stackoverflow and found a couple of things I am just having a bit of trouble grasping the next step here.

Let me know if I can clarify in any way

thanks!!

Answer 1

return $url;

Or am I missing something?

Answer 2

this is what i use (getting rid of parse_url and such):

function get_full_url() {
    // check SSL
    $ssl = "";
    if ((isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) && $_SERVER["HTTPS"]=="on") || (isset($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]) && $_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]=="443")) 
      { $ssl = "s"; }
    $serverport = ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]!="80"?":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]:"");
    return "http".$ssl."://".$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$serverport.$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}

just call get_full_url(); from anywhere in your script.