Re: Creating User Friendly URLS

On Thursday 17 August 2006 09:43, Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > My goal is to create user and search engine friendly URLs like: > mysite.com/my_web_page_title > > Instead of: > mysite.com/index.php?pageID=1 > > I asked about this before: > ?��[EO2� > n�P���http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=113597988027012&w=2 > > And there is this helpful tutorial: > > http://agachi.name/weblog/archives/2005/01/30/rewriting-dynamic-urls-into-f >riendly-urls.htm > > > Both of which refer to a variable called $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. > > But, in the php.net manual, in the predefined variables page, > 'PATH_INFO' is only obliquely referenced in the $_SERVER variable > description, under the 'PATH_TRANSLATED' element. > > When I've tried echoing out the contents of $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], I get > nothing. > > I'm trying to set it so that pages are named according to their title in > my MySQL database. So my script will pull "my_web_page_title" out of the > URL, match that against the database, and then display the appropriate > contents. > > I thought I could do this by simply making my link into: > <a href="index.php/my_web_page_title">My Web Page Title</a> > > And then stripping out the "index.php", and using the remainder for > both the URL and the database lookup. > > But, while I'm sure there are more steps than that, I'm halted initially > because I'm not sure where in the $_SERVER array my URL is being stored. > > Any advice on how to proceed here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > > -- > Dave M G Richard has a good article related to this. Mostly it's about how to force a download with a correct filename, but the last part of the article should get you pointed in the right direction if you don't want to use mod_rewrite with apache. http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/ -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099