Re: intercepting URLs in a "control-system"

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/485 That could have the answer you're looking for. Alan Lord wrote: > Please forgive any obvious ignorances on my part, I am just learning > PHP... > > Having read quite a bit on-line, I am interested in trying to "trap" > URLs sent to my site so I can process the request and respond without > neccessarily having a "real" page to serve. If this makes any sense, > how do I do it? Because I expect that apache (in my case) would not > like a URL that contains extra directories/files and would reject it. > > An example: > > Web Site Root: > > www.abc.com/index.php > > On that page are "a" tags to further information but which physically > don't exist. It will be automatically generated from a database. For > example: > > www.abc.com/cars/volvo/X70.html > > If I don't have that directory tree and a file called X70.html. Could > I "trap" the http/URL request (BEFORE apache throws it out) and > process it in my PHP control-engine which will find the right > information and respond accordingly? > > Thanks in advance, > > Alan > > PS, if there are any examples of this (GPL) which you know of, please > just pass me the link.