Re: what's the best way to handle this?

very cool chris!!! Justin on 19/03/03 2:27 AM, Chris Hayes (chayes@antenna.nl) wrote: > At 14:38 18-3-03, you wrote: >> Ok, I hope this makes sense, >> >> When a user 'registers' with our site, I want to generate their personal >> webpage for them. Currently, I have a webpage where the contents are >> generated from their personal info in the db and I have a drop down to view >> client pages but it is just the same page but I pass in the clientid so it >> will display their data. This is fine but I want the users to be able to >> tell others.."Visit my home page at www.eddiessite.com/Johnny or something >> like that...I don't want them to have to say visit my page >> www.eddissite/client_pages?clientid=43 does that make sense? Should I just >> generate a folder for them with an index page that redirects then to the >> clientpage with their id? > > wow wouldn't that create a huge directory structure! > > this is the way i did it, to be able to make all sorts of fake urls, from > /page/33 to /person/3 or person/jones or even /jones if you want. > You need a server that is setup to read .htaccess files. > > In the .htaccess file for your site, you write > --------------- > ErrorDocument 404 /subdirectories/to/redirect.php > --------------- > This way all the urls that would normally be led to a 404 warning page, are > now first led to a php file. It is VITAL to not use the complete URL but > only the part after www.domain.org, otherwise you loose all existing form > and url information. > > In redirect.php you check your url and split it up. You can do this any way > you like. I'll show some usefull examples: > > --------------- > <?PHP > $basis='http://www.sense.nl/'; //my base url to > build the links on. > global $_SERVER; > $path=trim($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); > $path_bits=explode('/',$path); > > switch (strtolower($path_bits[1])) > { > case 'educationworkshop': > Header("Location: > ".$basis."index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=15"); > break; > > case 'news': > Header("Location: > > ".$basis."modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&mode=nested&order=0&th > old=0&sid=".trim($path_bits[2]) > ); > break; > > > case 'research': > case 'researcher': > case 'researchers': > case 'researchguide': > case 'research_guide': > Header("Location: > ".$basis."redirect/research.php?".trim($path_bits[2]) ); > break; > > > default: > Header("Location: ".$basis."redirect/404.html"); > > } > > ?> > --------------- > > As you can see i simply split up the url on the slashes. > Some words, for example 'educationworkshop', lead to a fixed page. I have > a whole bunch of these, very useful. Leads to: > http://www.domain.org/educatiionworkshop > > > 'news' expects an extra value like > http://www.xx.org/news/11, then leads > directly to the long url. > > 'research' and a couple of lookalike words are forwarded with the extra > data to another PHP file specialized in selecting the descriptions, just as > you want. > > in research.php i then look: > is the extra data a number ? then go to the url.'&ID='.$thenumber > is it a word or phrase? then do a query to find the right number > > The last one is the one you could use. For instance if it finds > http://www.domain.org/research/jones, > a query is made that looks up Joneses. If there is only one Jones, get > the ID number and show the Jones directly. > If not, show a list of Joneses with links made with their respective ID > numbers. > > > Chris > > > > > >