url encoding

[brajeshwar]

Hi,

If you look at http://www.datecam.com
and click on any link, for example the sign up button,
instead of taking you to a straight link like
http://www.datecam.com/folder/signup.php
it takes you to http://www.datecam.com/index.php?1733d7369676e7570

How is this url encryption thingy done.
Does it requires any additional setup/installation or comes with any standard php installation, I have php 4.2.2 on my (mt) account.

Can you show me a mock up with a few files and the php codes for the same.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Brajeshwar

http://brajeshwar.com

[drew010]

its hard to say exactly what they did there, it is a few things i can think of that they may be doing...

Idea 1:
they may just include a file based on the query string.
for example
http://www.url.com/index.php?35353

index.php

---

<?php
$page = $_SERVER[QUERY_STRING];

include("includes/phpfiles/" . $page . ".php");
?>
so that would include "includes/phpfiles/35353.php

Idea 2:
they may decode the query string to a text.
(its not base64 encoding but ill use that for my example.

http://www.url.com/index.php?bWFpbnBhZ2UucGhw

index.php

---

<?php
$page = base64_decode($_SERVER[QUERY_STRING]);
//decodes to mainpage.php
include("includes/phpfiles/" . $page);
?>
and when they make a link
<a href="http://www.url.com/index.php?<?php echo base64_encode("mainpage.php"); ?>">link text</a>

Idea 3:
they could have pages stored in a db and they are retrieved based on what the string is in the query string and retrieve that page from a database.

[batman]

You can do that very easily.

This is how I do it:

<? 

$page = $_GET['page']; 


if(!$_GET['page']) { 
   include("incl/home.incl"); 
} else { 
   include("incl/" . $_GET['page'] . ".incl"); 
} 

?> 

Then what you want to do is:

1). Make a folder in your web named incl.

2). Make your pages you want with a .incl tag at the end, then upload them into the incl folder.
EXAMPLE: home.incl

3). Set your links.
EXAMPLE: <a href="index.php?page=contact">Contact</a>

The above example would basically be the index.php page but with the include of the contact page.