Calling the current product page url with php

[pricediscrimination]

How can you use php to call the current product page's url and use it within a link?

for example to do something like this:

<a href="<?php CURRENT PAGE ?>">clicky</a>

[gaurav10feb]

<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>

[pricediscrimination]

<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>

Thanks!

I had to change it to <?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> to get it to work because it was pulling up the root url twice then like http://site.comhttp://site.comhttp:/.../category/blah

Is this a standard php call? I always though zencart had a way of doing it too, like zen_url something something.

[swguy]

The function within the Zen Cart infrastructure is called zen_href_link.

If the product you're looking at is 5, for example, you would use

<a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page(5), "&products_id=5"); ?>">Some anchor text</a>

If you're on the product info page and you want the product id you're looking at, it's in

(int)$_GET['products_id']

(but if you're on the product page for a specific product, why do you need another URL to the product page for that product?)

[pricediscrimination]

(but if you're on the product page for a specific product, why do you need another URL to the product page for that product?)

If you are linking to a div located lower down on the page.

[DrByte]

So is your *real* question actually about how to properly create a named anchor link within a page? There are numerous threads on that topic.

[swguy]

... and indeed, such a link should not use the current page information.

Read <a href="#more">more here</a> ...

...

<a name="more"></a>
Here's more ....

[pricediscrimination]

... and indeed, such a link should not use the current page information.

Read <a href="#more">more here</a> ...

...

<a name="more"></a>
Here's more ....

But it works using the php you provided above.

[swguy]

I know that it works, but you're going back to the server for another page throw when you don't need to. The last way I suggested will be faster since it happens entirely in the browser.

[gjh42]

Just because it can work doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. The full URL would break if you made a test copy of your site elsewhere. The name anchor link would still work fine.