# apache_lookup_uri

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

apache_lookup_uri — Perform a partial request for the specified URI and return all info about it

### Description

object apache_lookup_uri ( string `$filename` )

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 only supported when PHP is installed as an Apache module.

### 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

### 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!