directory redirector

[autumn]

Hi,

I have a site where each user has his/her own control panel - I want to set up the site so the user can be redirected to his own page by going to www.thesite.com/userid

Obviously the easiest way would be to do something like www.thesite.com/?user=userid but I want to do it like the former.

On php.net they have this set up for looking up functions eg. www.php.net/eregi

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Cheers
A

[planetsim]

I dont exactly know how to do it. But you need to do some tinkering in the httpd.conf file. That does something with directories.

You can probably look at http://evolt.org . Im not sure but i think they had a tutorial on how they did it.

[Mordecai]

As long as you have mod_rewrite on Apache, you can use things like:
filename
filename.php/search/here
filename/search/here
... all of these from filename.php

The way you can get this information from PHP is by using either the REQUEST_URI or PATH_INFO:
$SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] $SERVER["PATH_INFO"]

[autumn]

I should add that I'm setting this up on IIS 🙁

A

[leatherback]

Not testet, but how about (As index.php):

$calledurl = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

if ($calledurl == 'http://www.domain.com/user') { 
$redirecturl = "http://www.user.domain.com"; 
}
// +---------------------------------------------------+
Header("Location: $redirecturl\n");