Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username

----- Original Message ---- > From: Gaurav Kumar <kumargauravjukebox@gmail.com> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 12:54:30 AM > Subject: [PHP] Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username > > Hi All, > > I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should > have there own profile page with a static URL like- > > http://www.abcnetwork/user/username > > Where username will be dynamic userid or something else. > > This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail (this > is my profile page). > > So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what > kind of methodology youtube is following? > > Thanks in Advance. > > Gaurav Kumar > OSWebstudio.com Assuming the 'username' is from DB, look into URL rewrite. Thus, client see this http://www.abcnetwork/user/username which translates into this (or something similar) to PHP http://www.abcnetwork/userProfile.php?user=username Of course, you'll need to handle the 404 just in case ;) Regards, Tommy