Re: (URL Translating) Apache, PHP, and the love of it all.... well, maybe not.

that's easy. don't redirect, just do an include() on the PHP file you actually want, or if you're using some fancy caching system and alrady have the output in a file, do a readfile(). then use Apache's ForceType. I think it's like: <Location /news> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Location> something like that. then make a file called "news" in the DocumentRoot directory that's like: $path_array = explode('/', $REQUEST_URI); $numPathElements = count($path_array); then loop through the elements and do what you need, you might need to use strtok() if you're expecting slashes in your arguments. put the name of the script in a var, either do a regex or parse_str() on the rest of the URI to set the vars you need (like aid=3911) and then do a include() with the script name. the URL will never change in the browser, it's one request, and you can make a very generic URL parsing script to make your URLs pretty. you can set DocumentRoot to this script and then you can have URLs like: http://www.myserver.com/index.html where actually your script is doing the work. maybe it includes a file called index.html and adds ads on the top or something. and with output buffering you can get even more power, i use output buffering to change all my image tags on the fly to a different server, but for the people who write the HTML code, they don't need to care about it. PHP is good stuff. ask if you need more help. -aaron At 9:13 AM +1300 3/4/01, Jenni &/or Patrick wrote:

I'm going to start with a nice simple, hopefully, questions. Some of you may have seen PCWorld.com - and its urls that are like http://www.pcworld.com/news/view/0,aid,3911,00.asp. This is achieved with a product called XCache (for IIS, visit www.xcache.com), wich translates this url into http://www.pcworld.com/news/view.asp?aid=3911. Now, you can probably do this in regex, and use the mod_rewrite, but this is not available to me, so we can all forget that one right away ;-). I have created a 404-processor that does the conversion (and even checks if the resultant page exsists, by using a simple file_exists();). Apache (or was it PHP? Or a combination of the above?) used to, when you said Header ("Location: /localpath"), just serve up the content, without doing a redirect. Under Apache/1.3.17 & PHP/4.0.4 this does not happen. Is there a way to do this redirect internally - ie. the browser is not even aware that the URL is different from the one it requested, let alone the visitor. And no, frames are not really an option: because it would defeat one of the reasons I want to do this internally, which is to prevent the need to do two requests. Hopefully someone will understand this (I'm sure there will be many), and be able to guide towards something that will work. Thanks, Patrick. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net