[RESOLVED] Query Strings Question.

kanuj

I've used PHP Query Strings before, although in a very newbie way, but what I'd like to know is, how can I substitute a slash "/" for a generic "?" query string operator? That is, if my query string was like this before:

www.domain.com/news/view.php?id=12

it could become:

www.domain.com/news/view.php/12

I hope that makes sense. I've seen something like this in operation in WordPress as well. Thanks.

weekender

Say you call the uri

view.php/store/this/data

You can then get the uri using

$qs = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

Then find the occurence of the second /

$position = strpos($qs, '/', 1);

Then get everything from $position onwards

$vars = substr($qs, $position);

Trim any / from both ends

$vars = trim($vars, '/');

And break it into an array

$var_array = explode($vars, '/');

And output the results

var_export($var_array);

This should then output:

array ( 0 => 'store', 1 => 'this', 2 => 'data', )

hope that helps! adam

niroshan

I think here you are trying to implement search engine friendly URL`s right?

check this out

Search engine friendly URls

frost110

Use .htaccess to send false directories to a processing file and then in that processing file explode at the slashes and put those into variables =) Not too hard to do. ^.-

--FrosT

bpat1434

Or, you can use .htaccess files all-together:

.htaccess

Options -FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^.php/(.*) /path/to/file.php?id=$1

NOTE:This will only work with URLs that follow the form of *.php/<id>. You can not use *.php/<year>/<month>/<day>/<post>/<comment_number>
You can come up with your own little rewrite rules, but this will do as you asked above.

That should work, may have to work on the URL in the address bar, but it should work....

kanuj

I'd asked this question before I discovered URL Rewriting. Thanks all, anyway.