Re: Using $PATH_INFO as variables (inspired by www.DevShed.com)

I have Apache on WinXP. That sounds great what you write here, but does this also work when, for example, I have that file index.php in www.mycompany.com and when I access the URL with www.mycompany.com/projects that he sees it as www.mycompany.com/index.php?var=projects ? Or does it only work when you go to the root of the site or subdir? Dr.Bob "Mike Frazer" <mike@invertedmind.com> wrote in message news:20020130134533.52202.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > What server are you running on? In Apache, if you add any filename to the > DirectoryIndex line, it will display that page from any directory without > specifying the filename. It comes default with pages like index.htm, > index.html and index.shtml. If you add, for instance, index.php (some > distros have this by default, as well), then you can have it load that page > by default with no file listed on the address/location bar in our browser. > > Mike > > > > "Dr.Bob" <dr.bob@zincusa.com> wrote in message > news:014501c1a98a$1f0cad30$9a3b40c3@drbob... > Hi, > I'm trying to figure out how www.devshed.com does what I want to achieve > also, this is my point: > > 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 ...) > > Also, when I try to extract the variabeles from the $PATH_INFO I get some > errors depending whether or not I end with a slash, and I do want to make > this fool prove, so that when a site visitor deletes the slash at the end, > it doesn't result in an error. > > This is the code I made: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --- > <?php > $var_array = explode("/",$PATH_INFO); > $words = array_unique ($var_array); > $total = count($words); > for ($i = 0; $i <= $total; $i++) { > echo "variable " . $i . " = " . $var_array[$i]."<br>"; > } > ?> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --- > > > And when I call this file (localhost/index) like this: > http://localhost/index/one/two/three/ > > This is my output: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --- > variable 0 = > variable 1 = one > variable 2 = two > variable 3 = three > variable 4 = > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --- > > Ofcourse I don't need the variable 0 and 4, can someone tell me where they > come from? > And, as said above, I get an Undefined Ofset-warning when I don't have a > closing slash at the end, how can I protect this? > > Phew -- a lotta lotta questions here, hope someone can help me to climb this > PHP-mountain:-) > Thanx in advance! > Dr.Bob > > > > > > >