.htaccess to PHP?

SuperCam

Is there a way with php to include a certain file when people go to a dir instead of using .htaccess? For ex. http://mysite.com/news/ would go to mysite.com/index.php and pass a variable that tells it its requesting news?

sarahk

.htaccess is the best way. The only alternative that I know of is to have a 404 Error document (usually specified in .htaccess ). This however is a global catchall that can be coded for each variation you might have.

Once into your ErrorDocument you can look at getenv('Request_URI') and explode it, stristr it to see what content you need to present.

SuperCam

Yes. What is the .htaccess code for this? I'm not too fermiliar with ht.

sarahk

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index.html$ /index.php
  RewriteRule ^esc/(.*)/(.*)$ /gothere.php?agent=esc&choice=$1
  RewriteRule ^ddr/(.*)/(.*)$ /gothere.php?agent=ddr&choice=$1
  RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ /robots.php

ErrorDocument 404 /goto.php

Here's mine.

I log my hits to robots.txt which is why it's in there.

This might be helpful: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910/2

chriswheat

You could save the following code to http://mysite.com/news/index.php

$new_url = "http://www.mysite.com/index.php?content=news";
header("Location: $new_url");
}

Then on the mysite/index.php

if($content = "news"){
print "the news";
}else if ($content = "aboutme"){
print "about me";
}else{
print "home page info";
}

Chris