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

A Big Thanks to all of you. Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is the answer, but I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than just /username a la twitter." I will be using many other aspects of my users something like "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/". OK Ashley, Tommy and Ralph- 100% correct that mod_rewrite will be used. I am a bit sticky that my URL will be- "http://www.abcnetwork/user/*Ashley*<http://www.abcnetwork/user/username>". So will I get $_GET["user"] with value as "*Ashley*" or *Tommy* in my script? <http://www.abcnetwork/userProfile.php?user=username>So what exactly will be the ".htaccess" rule for above? Thanks, Gaurav Kumar OSWebstudio.Com On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:24 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote: > > 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 > > If you're working on an Apache server, your best bet is to look at > mod_rewrite. You can write a simple rule to match against these sorts of > URL formats, so that to your visitors it appears as if the actual path > exists, but internally it can get translated to something like > http://www.abcnetwork.com/profile.php?id=username > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > >