Re: form posting to a fake page (another idea)

I'm really not good with the ereg stuff; I wouldn't even know where to start. It's really quite simple what I need to have happen. *.DOMAIN.COM/*.* needs to access /index.php My network handles multiple domains/subdomains; so it's important it can work with them all. Any ideas? ----Original Message Follows---- From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] form posting to a fake page (another idea) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:29:40 -0500 (CDT) Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html which gives countless examples of using mod_rewrite rules for this sort of thing. You can direct all requests to a single page and then let that page sort things out as it pleases. These are processed internal to the server without redirects (unless you want to use a redirect) and POST data is preserved. miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote:

I'm not trying to make the page redirect anywhere. I'm trying to create the

illusion of there being many pages when there is only one doing all the work. For example: http://hsdnetwork.swifte.net/technicians.html The page, technicians.html, does not really exist. The server knows this and so calls(redirects) the root index.php file. Why must it redirect? Why

can't Apache just substitute the index.php file without doing anything else?? That's the real problem! If it did that, the posted variables would

be available. If you click the submit button on this page, you will see what I have had to

do to get around this. The action property is set to "index.php?login=attempt&page=/technicians.html" when I would like the action property to be "?login=attempt". This really shouldn't be so complicated! :-) ----Original Message Follows---- From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] form posting to a fake page Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:00:17 -0500 (CDT) Your error handler would read them and then construct a redirect containing the form data in querystring format. miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote: $_POST[] variables do not exist on a redirected page; that's the problem!

----Original Message Follows---- From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] form posting to a fake page Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:56:32 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote:

It would still require some knowledge of the posted data. If someone

clicks

a submit button, and it is posting to a page that doesn't really

exist, then

when the index.php file gets called as a 404 errordocument, the posted

variables are already lost, so it wouldn't be possible to access the

posted

variables in any fashion. The only possibility might be if Apache had

some

way of dealing with this scenario and I am not that familiar with how

Apache

works. And so, that leaves me with the only workaround I do know,

post to a

page that does exist! It's just not the ideal solution, but it works.

Well, depending on the quantity of posted data, you could go through $_POST[] and turn them into GET args and pass them along to the appropriate page (not that I really understand what you're trying to do).

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