Re: Dynamic sub directory listing without redirect

On 10/7/05, Terence <terence@sunway.edu.my> wrote: > Hi List, > > I am trying to allow dynamic URL's for my users to remember similiar to: > > www.mysite.com/joesoap > > So I want to use "joesoap" in a PHP script to pick up the user's details > from a MySQL database. If the "joesoap" does not exist in the table > I will handle that. > > So basically I have one file www.mysite.com/index.php which should do > all the processing. > > I have tried with the apache .htaccess mod_rewrite, however when I echo > $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] I can't detect the "joesoap". It returns > /index.php. > > Of course the easiest way is to do something like > www.mysite.com/index.php?username=joesoap > but that is too long and complicated for our users. As we have thousands > of users, I don't want to create actual directories. > > Furthermore can this be done too (without a joesoap file): > www.mysite.com/joesoap?show_extra_details=yes > > Any advice/links would be much appreciated. If I am barking up the wrong > tree throw me a bone please. mod_rewrite can handle this easy enough: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([a-z].*) /index.php?username=$1 [L,qsappend] RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L,qsappend] $_GET[ 'username' ] will be available in your index.php when you pass a url like: www.mysite.com/joesoap This can be expanded for more variables/matches by adding more matching groups to the regex. ^([a-z].*)/([a-z].*) and so forth. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer MySQL Core Certification http://destiney.com/