Search Friendly URL's

fire_cracker

I am working on making my URL's more search engine friendly. I searched the board, and found some code that should allow me to do this. I tried to impliment it in a test environment, and got an internal server error. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

<? 

$string=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; 
$vars = explode("/", $string); 
$id = $vars['1'];

echo $id;
?>

Thanks everyone.

dalecosp

Other than using single quotes instead of double for array indices (and that's no big deal, usually --- dunno about here) I see nothing to hint at the problem.

Your other PHP scripts work fine?

fire_cracker

All of my other scripts are working just fine. This one; however, keeps giving me the internal server error. Is there any code that I can add to report the error, so that I may have a better idea as to what is causing the problem?

dalecosp

Well, since this is a server error and not a PHP error, I don't know that it'd help much to add code for error_reporting() to the script.

Better would be to check the server logs. Is this Apache? IIRC, a number of the "FAQS" at www.apache.org deal with "Internal Server Errors" as well.

Of course, the puzzling thing is that it's only this script.

Hmm... are you sure that the "REQUEST_URI" variable is available to whatever webserver you are running :eek: -- possibility.....

fire_cracker

I am, indeed, running apache; however, I don't know a whole lot about configuring it to accept the REQUEST_URI variable. I guess that I will check out the apache website, and see what they have to say about my little problem. Thanks for the help, and have a happy halloween 🙂

dalecosp

Hmm, it can't be that the variable doesn't exist, then, 'cause Apache is quite compliant with the CGI spec that defines the variable...

What's the value of the variable (i.e. 'echo $string') ??

fire_cracker

When I process the script normaly (with just the regular URL) it doesn't give me the ugly error; however, when I start messing with the url, to try and make the script work, I'm getting the error.

An example:

http://www.myserver.com/something.php - works fine

http://www.myserver.com/something.php/1/ - gives me the error.

dta

xxx.php/x/ won't work, but xxx.php?x will

anyway, if this is for your website (ind-music site) then you might wnat to take the page titles out of the query for each page, your URL had way too much un-needed stuff in it

just a thought

fire_cracker

This isn't for ind-music. I am working on something else right now, that isn't exactly online yet. I need to pass the page ID through, so that the content can load from my sql table.

drawmack

I just implemented this on my site: http://www.suryvial.com/development/articles/1/1

I think I know the problem you're having:

Originally posted by fire_cracker
http://www.myserver.com/something.php - works fine

http://www.myserver.com/something.php/1/ - gives me the error.

when you split http://www.myserver.com/something.php/1/ on the / character you get an array that looks like this:

[0] =>
[1] => something.php
[2] => 1

try reading in the second array element instead of the first array element.

dalecosp

Originally posted by dta
xxx.php/x/ won't work, but xxx.php?x will

Actually, one of the most popular articles on this site deals with this issue.

By enabling a certain apache module, and then parsing the query string, you can put variables in a 'stack ordered' URL, read 'em, and fly in the content as necessary. I figure lots of sites are doing it these days....