RE: [PHP] Using $PATH_INFO as variables (inspired by www.DevShed.com)

m: > my main URL (for example) is www.mycompany.com > I want the central page about our projects to be found under > www.mycompany.com/projects > and project LovePeaceAndBananas under > www.mycompany.com/projects/LovePeaceAndBananas > > I already know that this can be achieved by using the $PATH_INFO as > variables, to be used in de main file in the root of the site. > So far I have my Apache webserver accept files with no extention > (index, in > stead of index.php) to be parsed as PHP. But if I look at the site of > DevShed, I don't see them using a file at all! I can't get it to > work on my > local test system to make an URL like > www.mycompany.com/projects/LovePeaceAndBananas without the existens of a > file called 'projects'. > Can anyone tell me their 'trick'? (unfortunately, they don't show > their page > source anymore like they used to do ...) > Hi see this page for more details http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim19990117.php3 You do actually need the file called projects. This is the file that does all the work. It didn't quite work exactly as that for me, so here's what I did just in case you need it. add the follwoing into .htaccess under you site root ## set rewrite rule for author RewriteRule ^/projects/(.*) /projects?rest_of_url=/$1 Then add this to your projects file $_MY_PATH = explode("/",$PATH_INFO); array_shift($_MY_PATH); This will give you the array of elements that come after projects. i.e /projects/LovePeaceAndBananas/one $_MY_PATH[0] // this will be LovePeaceAndBananas $_MY_PATH[1] // this is one etc.... HTH m: