note 56909 deleted from reserved.variables by felipe

Note Submitter: jeromenelson at gmail dot com ---- You can take advantage of 404 error to an usable redirection using REQUEST_URI ... For example the following program can retrieve the information for the 'search_string', for a given URI: http://servername/profiles/search_string, even though there's no such path. Do the following steps.. Step 1: Edit Apache config: set ErrorDocument 404 "/missing.php" Step 2: Write the missing.php as follows ... <? $mainPath = "/profiles/"; // Example: http://servername/profiles/search_string $mpLength = strlen( $mainPath ); $request_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if ( $mainPath != substr($request_uri,0,$mpLength) ) { // Check if the given URI is valid echo "404 Page Not Found !"; exit(); } $name = substr ($request_uri , $mpLength ) ; // Extract the string to be searched echo "You have searched for the profile of Mr. $name"; /** Here you can write the code to retrieve and display the $name's information from the database */ ?> Step 3: Now try http://servername/profiles/Jerry (of course, there shouldn't be a file/folder in the server like "DOCROOT/profiles/Jerry" ) output: You have searched for the profile of Mr. Jerry God Bless You!