indexing dynamic pages

[Anon]

Hi all.

I have a vague memory that I have seen a way to rewrite calls to an script that it doesn't use the form /script.php?var1=val1&var2=val2 but instead writes all the calls in the form of "normal" urls lie /var1/var2 so that pages can be searched by crawlers and things like that (but still creates the pages dynamic as before).
Am i totally wrong about this or does anyone knows more about this?

[terje-s]

Well, I have done this a couple of times (for making dynamic URLs thats still fairly easy to remember). If they havn't removed it the last year, its done in the sourceforge code (projects.php).

make a small script called test.php wich contains only something like <?php echo $REQUEST_URI; ?>, then call it by something like:

http://www.host.com/test.php/some/weird/stuff

At least my apache (linux) executes the test.php file, and puts the entire URI into $REQUEST_URI. So, you should be able to get data this way.

Btw, sourceforge has setup their server somehow to execute the projects.php file even if you only call it by 'projects' (without extension). I'm not sure how this is done, but it allows you to go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql , and then the projects.php file reads REQUEST_URI and redirects etc. Pretty cool.

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http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim19990117.php3

[Anon]

Found this snippet too:

<?php
//This only works with apache module.
$HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);
array_shift($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);
reset($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);
$HTTP_PATH_VARS = array();
while( list($index,$key) = each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS) ) {
list($index,$val) = each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS);
$val = urldecode($val);
$HTTP_PATH_VARS[$key] = $val;
$$key = $val; //or $GLOBALS[$key] = $val;
}

Dunno if it works ok!
bye

[Anon]

Does anyone know if a similar solution could be done with ASP?