apache_request_headers

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

apache_request_headers — Fetch all HTTP request headers

Description

array apache_request_headers ( void )

Fetches all HTTP request headers from the current request.

Return Values

An associative array of all the HTTP headers in the current request, or FALSE on failure.

Changelog

Version	Description
5.5.7	This function became available in the CLI server.
5.4.0	This function became available under FastCGI. Previously, it was supported when PHP was installed as an Apache module or by the NSAPI server module in Netscape/iPlanet/SunONE webservers.

Examples

Example #1 apache_request_headers() example


<?php
$headers = apache_request_headers();

foreach ($headers as $header => $value) {
    echo "$header: $value <br />\n";
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
Host: www.example.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

Notes

Note:
You can also get at the value of the common CGI variables by reading them from the environment, which works whether or not you are using PHP as an Apache module. Use phpinfo() to see a list of all of the available environment variables.

User Contributed Notes

callum85 at notspam dot msn dot com

9 years ago


There is a simple way to get request headers from Apache even on PHP running as a CGI. As far as I know, it's the only way to get the headers "If-Modified-Since" and "If-None-Match" when apache_request_headers() isn't available. You need mod_rewrite, which most web hosts seem to have enabled. Put this in an .htacess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE:%{HTTP:If-Modified-Since}]
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH:%{HTTP:If-None-Match}]

The headers are then available in PHP as
<?php
  $_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'];
  $_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'];
?>

I've tested this on PHP/5.1.6, on both Apache/2.2.3/Win32 and Apache/2.0.54/Unix, and it works perfectly.

Note: if you use RewriteRules already for clean URLs, you need to put the above rules AFTER your existing ones.

egocentryk

1 year ago


Superglobal $_SERVER,  used in all patches for missing getallheaders() contains only truly basic headers.  To pass ANY header into PHP in any httpd environment, including CGI/FCGI just add rule (any number of rules) into .htaccess:

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_MY_HEADER:%{HTTP:My-Header}]

and the header with it's value will appear for PHP as 
<?php print $_SERVER['HTTP_MY_HEADER']; ?>

And... just couldn't hold off. Rewrtiting $_SERVER keys for replacing missing function really does not require RegExps, preg_matches or evals... Try this:
<?php
function getallheaders() { 
  foreach($_SERVER as $K=>$V){$a=explode('_' ,$K); 
      if(array_shift($a)=='HTTP'){ 
           array_walk($a,function(&$v){$v=ucfirst(strtolower($v));});
       $retval[join('-',$a)]=$V;} 
    } return $retval; }
 ?>

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