Virtual Directories with PHP

[Anon]

Is there a way to have php create virtual directories from a profile name instead of using apache create the virtual directories.

Example: User Name is Tim so php will look up the user profile even though the directory doesn't exsist.

So the url http://mydomain/members/tim

Will produce the users profile..

I tried many methods but having to many problems and errors.

Help!!

[Anon]

There is one way to do this without tampering with your apache/server files:

make a members.php file, and use it as:

http://mydomain/members.php/tim

and in it reference:

basename($REQUEST_URI) - which will be 'tim'

That's not as elegant as a server-induced alternative, but it's functional.

Dave

[Anon]

Right. I found out how you can do that using Apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

you tell it to send all requests for a certain directory (http://mydomain/members/) to a certain file (http://mydomain/members.php)

There's probably an easier way to do it, but I can't see it.