Re: Preserving URL after redirect?

Skip Evans wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a weird issue that's got me pretty stumped, and I'm not sure I > can do what the client is asking, or at least not how I'm trying to do it. > > I have a code base of my own I'm building sites on, fully AJAX enabled > so that once the site loads it never fully refreshes a page, but AJAX > runs everything through JS to server calls for content, updating only > sections of the page only when needed, say for like the small calendar > in the upper right corner when a new month is clicked. > > The site is basically a CMS for school sports teams to create their own > pages, and the schools are accessed via individual directories like > > http://prepcube.com/wi/madison/ > > So I created the wi/madison/ > > ...directory when the school signs up and placed a file there that > parses the URI to get the schools "shortname", in this case "madison", > and then sets a session variables for school ID that allows the user to > access this school's data. > > Then it redirects back to > > http://prepcube.com/ > > ...which of course loses the wi/madison portion of the URL, thought the > client wants this preserved and to remain in the URL field. > > And since this is a fully AJAX enables site, the URL in the browser's > URL field would never change from > > http://prepcube.com/wi/madison/ > > ...which is something the client really likes. > > So, my question is how would I do that, and I strongly suspect if it's > possible at all an .htaccess file with the proper entries would be the > way to do it, not using PHP code to redirect as I am now. > > Is this the case? > > Unfortunately, I must confess to not being terribly familiar with > htaccess files, I believe this would be rewrite rules to rewrite the URL > and point it to the right place? But even with htaccess rewrite rules > could this be done to preserve the full URL with state/school in the > browser's URL field? > > Any advice, as always, is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks globules! > Skip Why create a "real" directory and put a file in it? Here is one approach: Client uses http://prepcube.com/wi/madison/ and .htaccess rewrites to http://prepcube.com/index.php?path=wi/madison index.php parses the path var to extract the short name and set the session var: Rewrite rule would look something like: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [QSA,L] </IfModule> -Shawn