Re: Variables in 'friendly' urls
| From: | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams | Date: | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:28:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Variables in 'friendly' urls | ||
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, William Bailey wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to pass variables as 'friendly' urls? So instead of
> haveing a url like www.blah.co.uk/profile.php?team=tigers i could have
> www.blah.co.uk/profile.php/team/tigers which would call profile.php and set
> team to tigers.
> I've been playing with it but i can't seem to get it to set the
> variables. It will run the script (profile.php) but the variable $team if
> still unset.
>
> Thanks,
> William.
>
If you're using Apache one way of doing it is using the all-powerful
mod_rewrite. That way you could request http://www.example.com/team/tigers and
it could automagically get converted to
http://www.example.com/profile.php3 with $team set
to "tigers".
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>