Re: PHP&Apache config to not require "?"

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 00:37, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > Hello PHP'ers > > I am currently using the very cool PHPSlideshow(1) > > This gives me URLs that look like this: > > http://www.tntluoma.com/show.php?directory=nursery/ > > I would like to be able to have simpler URL like this: > > http://www.tntluoma.com/show/directory=nursery/ > > I was researching for an answer for this and came across some information > at http://www.evolt.org/article/rdf/18/22880/ that was quite > helpful about > Apache's 'force type' which means (I think) that I can use this: > > <FilesMatch "^show$"> > ForceType application/x-httpd-php > </FilesMatch> > > that will mean that I do not have to use the .php, which is good. Once you have forced http://www.tntluoma.com/show To run as your php script then ... > But the question remains how I can drop the ? (originally found after the > show.php? for a / as above) ... use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REQUEST_URI'] (or $_SERVER[...]) to grab and parse the rest of the URL. Obviously you'll have to make some minor changes to PHPSlideshow so that it will output the URL without the '?' -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Everybody gets free BORSCHT! */