Re: How do you read one of these parameters?

Brian Dunning wrote: > I see URLs formatted like this: > > http://tinyurl.com/xyz > > How do you read that "xyz," since there's no "/?x=" preceding it? Is > it > not a get parameter? If you can't do mod_rewrite you can use: http://tinyurl.com/index.php/xyz with: <?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];?> I use it all the time, especially to pass parameters to dynamic images and PDFs so that Microsoft Internet Explorer (various versions) can't screw up. BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1 GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm