clean url

[Anon]

Hi All,

I've searched for relevant posts, but haven't found a clear answer to this yet:

I have a site using sessions, with the session var being passed in the url (among others). I still want to be able to use the vars passed in the url, but don't want the url to display the vars (cake-and-eat-it syndrome...)

i.e.

www.blah.com?m=th&SS=kj34j23jsd899874a9d8g976y

to:

www.blah.com

and yes, its a purely cosmetic reason!

Cheers,

Rob Ganly

[terje-s]

There are several ways to do this. The parse_url() function is probably the best.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

[Anon]

Thanks for that pointer!

However would I have to parse the url before I navigated to it and then pass the values as hidden (and construct the page according to these?) or could I go to the url, then parse it and then refresh the page with the values extracted and replace the old ugly url with the silky new one? not sure which is the best method of using this function... any further ideas?

Regards,

Rob Ganly

[Anon]

Not sure exactly what you're trying to achieve.

However if it's the address field in the browser that needs to hold a different value, consider using a frameset. Non-frames capable browsers would not be affected anyway.

That is, use a framset with rows= and cols=, one big frame covering the entire window. Now if you type www.host.com in the address, this will stay.

Alternately you can use session variables to store the information, and avoid parsing them through the URL.