If you want to get the current URL of the page in Magento, there are a lot of solutions. I have given below the easiest and tested method here
$currentUrl = $this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
echo $currUrl= $this->getUrl('').$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$urlRequest = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest(); $urlPart = $urlRequest->getServer('ORIG_PATH_INFO'); if(is_null($urlPart)) { $urlPart = $urlRequest->getServer('PATH_INFO'); } $urlPart = substr($urlPart, 1 ); $currentUrl = $this->getUrl($urlPart);
$baseUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl(); // Gives the base url of your magento installation
$mediaUrl = Mage::getBaseUrl('media'); // Gives the url of media directory inside your magento installation
Hope this will help to someone.