RE: [PHP-DB] using php and mysql with images

> There is a technique using ForceType and <Location> in you httpd > configuration files so you don't have to have the .php in the > program. I read about that on phpbuilder.com. It's talking about search engine indexing. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3 Quote: ---------------------------------------------------------- To pull this off, I started with a subtle Apache feature that can "force" a script to be called for any certain directory tree. In my case, I wanted all URLs that fall under "/local/" to call a script. This would be MUCH easier than creating 200,000 localized web pages and a genuine directory structure to match it. So in Apache's httpd.conf file, I added the following lines: <Location /local> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3 </Location> This forces every request that starts with "/local/" to call a script called "local" (just "local", not "local.php3") in the $DOCUMENT_ROOT (usually called "/htdocs/") of your server. "local" then uses PHP to parse the URL and act accordingly. The code for my "local" script is on the last page of this article. You can of course replace "local" with any filename you want, as long as you change your httpd.conf accordingly. Now if you don't have access to your httpd.conf file, you can also try the <files > directive in a .htaccess file. Hundreds of people ran into this stumbling block in the past 16 months. It appears that this method only works on Linux, as people are reporting trouble on FreeBSD and Windows. If you find an .htaccess solution on Windows, let me know. Sample .htaccess file: <Files local> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3 </Files>