[RESOLVED] http://yourdomain.com/varible ?????

n_wattam

Hi,

i have seen some sites where the url is like "http://yourdomain.com/varible" and they are managing to capture the "varible" part as a varible.. does anyone know how to do this? without using the ?name=varible etc.

Quadodo

You need to use mod_rewrite via a .htaccess file:

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite

n_wattam

Hi,

Thanks for the link, i have given it a read and looked up some other sites like this but its going right over my head.

can anyone provide me with a working example..

index.php?keyword=neil

<? echo $keyword; ?>

this would result in "neil" displaying on the page.

i want the same effect no matter what follows the "mydomain.com/xxxxx

mydomain.com/neil
mydomain.com/peter

YAOMK

you would have to use mode_rewrite along with regular expressions to implicitly initialize $keyword, as you can see it would defeat the purpose as the variable isn't being passed from another script, what is the point in doing this? you could simply initialize that variable in your script.

EDIT: I got confused with your title, I thought you wanted to capture whatever was after the .php? and attempt canonical url at the same time. I guess I missed:

without using the ?name=varible etc.

n_wattam

i dont think you are understanding what i reqire..

i have a database with a list of very long URLS to long to remember easy, along with each URL is a keyword.

eg.

phpb1 = http://phpbuilder.com/board/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=10835314

what i then want is to have a script running from index.php so when someone goes to the following

http://www.mydomain.com/phpb1

it would then redirect them to the long url.

so what the script index.php is doing is reconising what ever comes after the / is a value, and that value is then lookedup in a mysql databased, the long url is then retrieved if found and the user is forwarded to that address.

What i wanted was just a working sample script where what ever came after / was echoed on the screen loading index.php all the time, where i would then do the addition code.

Quadodo

You could do something like this in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ redir.php?keyword=$1

Then in the redir.php grab the keyword from the URL and check it against the database, then use a simple redirect if it's found:

header('Location: new_url');

n_wattam

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

is getting the following results.

http://mydomain/page/help

page is varible, and "help" is the value.

but i dont want to have to use /page/

any ideas

Quadodo

See the post above yours 🙂

n_wattam

Quadodo wrote:
You could do something like this in the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ redir.php?keyword=$1
Then in the redir.php grab the keyword from the URL and check it against the database, then use a simple redirect if it's found:
header('Location: new_url');

just tryied this but nothing happens's it doesnt even run the redir.php file.

Quadodo

Hmm it should but try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ redir.php?keyword=$1

n_wattam

that runs the actual file, but outputs nothing unless you use the format

aaa/bbb

you cant just put /bbb

aaa being the varible and bbb being the value...

n_wattam

got it working.. your first sample works.. i was doing something wrong at my end 🙂

cheers, very greatfull

Quadodo

Yup no problem 🙂 Good luck with your site 🙂

bradgrafelman

Don't forget to mark this thread resolved.

n_wattam

@ Quadodo

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bradgrafelman

Anyone up for some infinite recursion? :p