how do make index.php load no matter what is in the url bar?

dv6cougar

ok basically what i want to do it this.

and it works for userids and numbers however - i'd like to do it like this:
www.TunerCarz.com/profile/1

where 1 becomes the id - now i can do that portion of it using $REQUEST_URI and explode() no big deal, but the problem is that when someone enters 1 like i did, it says that 1 is not a file in that folder - which it's not.

so how do i make index.php run regardless of what's in the url bar within that folder?

i looked in the manuel but I couldn't find anything, probably becuase I don't even know what ot call what i'm trying to lol 😕

thanks all 😃

Threehearts

Hi!
in my opinioni this is a server script thing, since the server will interpret .../1 as a file ... which doesnt exist of course, so hell answer with a 404 page...

what you'll have to do is writing a shellscript that takes any request for a nonexisting file and rewrite it to ?id=var_request

that should be possible, on a *nix box at least.

the only other solution that i can think of is replacing your 404 error page with a php file that has a look into the page that would have been called, checks whether the requested page handle equals a valid id and - if that is the case - forwards the user to index.php?id=value
and if not to the 404 page.

ive never done that before so you'd have to try it.

greetings, jakob

dv6cougar

ah the 404 isn't a bad idea - i think i can do that 😃

thanks for your help

Norman_Graham

I believe you can do this with .htaccess, but don't ask me for the details. Some time ago, however, I did download an article about the multiple uses of htaccess and how to implement them ... and here it is as a WORD file.

HTH

Norm

daveyboy

two options (assuming you're using apache). You can either use the apache module mod_rewrite to change /script/a/b into /script.php?var1=a&var2=b or you can use a custom 404 document:

.htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

then use index.php to split $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] at the slashes and apply it to your scripts. if the request is valid, be sure to return 200, not 404 as the server wants to:

 header( 'HTTP/1.x 200 OK' );

then display your output.

dv6cougar

wow, thanks alot - should be able to figure it out when I get a chance to play with it now.

superwormy

Apache Module mod_rewrite
Apache's ForceType directive
404 Error Redirections ( which makes your server logs pretty useless, because they'll just be filled with 404s )