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Sharing blog posts by email or social media - Full URL?

Hi,

I've been using Perch to power a new website for the first time and I've been trying to get full URLs for the social sharing links. It's working at the moment, but still done partly manually and I was wondering if it's possible to get the full URL (query string included). Here are some examples of what I have:

<a href="mailto:?subject=<SUBJECT_TEXT_HERE>&body=https://www.domain.com<?php echo PerchUtil::html($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.domain.com<?php echo PerchUtil::html($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>

but like I said, the domain parts are manually written. Is there any way to get the whole URL (domain/base + query string) for the social sharing links? :)

Thanks!
Tomi Tähti

Tomi Tähti 0 points

  • 3 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

3 years ago

You can usually use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] to get the current host, but it will depend on your hosting configuration.
Tomi Tähti

Tomi Tähti 0 points

3 years ago

Hi Drew!

Thank you for your answer. That indeed gives the "domain.com" part but will not include the protocol (https:// or https://) at the beginning. This is not so serious though, the protocol and domain shouldn't change anytime soon, but I started investigating this purely out of curiosity. :)

Kind Regards, Tomi