Virtual directories as parameters

[itsbruce]

I could swear that I read an article on this site, some months ago, about rewriting a url like

http://server/lookup/subject/category/keyword

to

http://server/lookup.php?param1=subject+param2=category+param3=keyword

Does that ring a bell with anyone?

Looking at the Apache documentation, I can see that I could use mod_alias for this but maybe not exactly as the article intended.

[daarius]

yes, the article i think still exists.

what you have to use is the apache directive which will force any requests made to a single file which you define.

and then the rest you deal with the request inside that file using $REQUEST_URI to find out the actual URL the user entered, and explode() to seperate the folders by '/'.

The URL to that article is below:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3

good luck..
(I am using the same method on my site too:
http://www.shianews.com)