I need help for PHP 5

shahzad_baliant

I am a PHP web developer. I have a project for modifications. Previously on this project a coder worked in PHP 5 which i have not used yet. I have started work on it, become able to run but one problem i am facing continously and that is when i browse categories a path like this is appearing http://localhost/my-site/browse/air_...r_Conditioners. As there is no browse directory according to url, but there is file "browse" without extension. Can anyone let me know what coding technique the previous coder used.

goldbug

Sounds like mod_rewrite to me.

daarius

there will be a .htaccess file in there too, which most probably is forcing the file "browse" to be treated as a php file, even though it has no extension. this file then acts as a virtual folder, and all the requests appended to this file i.e. /browse/ etc are then handled by this file. hope this helps.

Weedpacket

http://www.w3.org/TR/chips/#uri

A common mistake, responsible for many HTTP implementations problems, is to think this is equivalent to a filename within a computer system. This is wrong. URIs have, conceptually, nothing to do with a file system. One should remember that at all times when dealing with the World Wide Web.

MarkR

I suspect that goldbug is wrong and daarius is right - mod_rewrite is NOT being used, rather there is a PHP file called "browse" (note: no extension). This is executed by PHP because Apache's rules (either in httpd.conf or .htaccess) tell it to.

Then it uses PATH_INFO to discover what was requested.

This is a nice way of doing it; I use it often.

Mark