index redirect

My first question would be is the file always going to be index.php to work with? If so, you could do a redirect using the $QUERY_STRING var to the correct path inside of index.php and be done with it.

amc

amcgrath

I just reread your subject title and answered my own question. That said, in index.php, I would do somethng like this:

if ($SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])
{
$redirURL = 'www.hardmods.net/modules/ipboard/dex.php?' . $SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

header('Location:$redirURL');
exit;
}

amc

r270ba

Ok here is the only other thing....I forgot to mention 🙁....my index.php will have more code in there that will need to be ran unless the index.php?showtopic=x...meaning if index.php?anything_else_beisdes_showtopic=x is sent then i want it execute index.php....the only time i would wan to redirect is when index.php?showtopic=x

what do you think???

amcgrath

Something like this should work:

if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])
{

$qsCheck = explode('=',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ;

if ($qsCheck[0] == 'showtopic')
{
$redirURL = 'www.hardmods.net/modules/ipboard/index.php?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

header('Location:$redirURL');
exit;
}
}

amc

r270ba

thanks i will try it out!!!

r270ba

didn't work....it doesn't redirect

r270ba

Here is the code:

<?php
if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) 
{ 

$qsCheck = explode('=',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ; 

if ($qsCheck[0] == 'showtopic') 
{ 
$redirURL = 'www.rondwilson.com/hardmods_xoops/modules/ipboard/index.php?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; 

header('Location:$redirURL'); 
exit; 
} 
} 


/**
 * redirects to installation, if xoops is not installed yet
 **/
include "mainfile.php";

//check if start page is defined
if ( isset($xoopsConfig['startpage']) && $xoopsConfig['startpage'] != "" && $xoopsConfig['startpage'] != "--" ) {
	header('Location: '.XOOPS_URL.'/modules/'.$xoopsConfig['startpage'].'/');
	exit();
} else {
	$xoopsOption['show_cblock'] =1;
	include "header.php";
	include "footer.php";
}
?>

This is the Xoops index.php....I switched over from a forum based site (hence the index.php?showtopic=x) to the Xoops CMS and now my index.php is for Xoops and my forums are /modules/ipboard/....hope this helps...

amcgrath

Some misspellings, sorry:

if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])

{

$qsCheck = explode('=',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) ;

if ($qsCheck[0] == 'showtopic')

{

$redirURL = 'http://www.rondwilson.com/hardmods_xoops/modules/ipboard/index.php?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

header("Location:" . $redirURL);

exit;

}
}

that worked fine from my server.
amc

Weedpacket

Maybe you should look into whatever services your web server provides in the way of "URL rewriting" (that being a phrase to google on).

And as an aside, note what Sir Tim wrote on the subject....

r270ba

thanks amc...will try it out...

weedpacket...the entire directory structure has changed...there for the url's will change with it...this change was need for my site to continue growing and become more organized...

amcgrath

r27, you're welcome. Weed, one idea we do A LOT here at work is multi views, using the Apache web server. Basically, we have directories like http://www.timesharesaver.com/find/United-States/New-Jersey/Atlantic-City (that's a real one) that are NOT directories. Instead, each "directory" corresponds to a set variable. For example, this URL is read as /<control file>/<contry>/<state>/<city> where "file is the control file (it is actually file.php). This will save space, which the article sorta refers to, and maintenance is at the database level, not the file system.

amc