Hiding Query ?

[dalar]

hi!

I've been searching for some php code which will allow me to encode my parameter information in the slash / format instead of using the ? query string:

So take the URL from:
'http://www.server.com/page.php?id=14&this=that'
Can be written as:
'http://www.server.com/page.php/id/14/this/that'

And this script will decode the parameter info $id and $this in our case.

Heres the script:

<?php
//This only works with apache module. 
$HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS = explode("/",$PATH_INFO); 

array_shift($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS); 
reset($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS); 

$HTTP_PATH_VARS = array(); 

while( list($index,$key) = each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS) ) { 
        list($index,$val) =  each($HTTP_TEMP_PATH_VARS); 
        $val = urldecode($val);     

        $HTTP_PATH_VARS[$key] = $val; 
        $$key = $val; 
} 

?> 

The only problem is I am developing my code on a IIS machine - my host runs Apache - as the code says, it requires an Apache module for it to work,

I was just wondering if anyone else knows of any other method to achieve the same thing so I can use it on IIS too?

Thanks

[devinemke]

the short answer is download and install apache on your dev machine and take a look at mod_rewrite.