[RESOLVED] Parsing the header

perrohunter

Hi, I have a small question

How can i parse the # from the url ?

some sites address are www.site.com/#thingy

or how can I parse text and numbers after the slash ?

like www.site.com/23323/text-article-like-this

thanks in advance

YAOMK

In a .htaccess define rules for canonical url:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ some_page.php [NC]

bpat1434

You could also look at the URI and $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to see what's there.

If you know the URL will be constant and youl have everything go through the index.php, you could write a regex to match everything after the slash after the domain.

perrohunter

YAOMK wrote:
In a .htaccess define rules for canonical url:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ some_page.php [NC]

exactly what does this syntax means ? as far as I can understand i means that somepage will parse the '?' ?

Parsing the whole URL seemz yummy too 🙂

NogDog

Not sure what you want to accomplish, but you might want to look at the [man]parse_url[/man] function.

perrohunter

well , parsing_url looks nice, however if I have more than 2 slashes apache will think is a dir and won't stay with the index :/

bpat1434

(.) means that any character, ".", any number of times, "", will be captured as a match. The "/" is to allow for people that use trailing slashes or not in the URLs when browsing to folders. The "?" means 0 or 1 of the previous character (or range). The $ marks the end of the line.

So essentially that will match all of the following:

http://www.site.com/blah
http://www.site.com/blah/
http://www.site.com/blah/boo/blue/

But it will not match

http://www.site.com/blah.php
http://www.site.com/blah/index.html

http://www.site.com/blah/boo/blue/some/other/dir/.htaccess[/code]

Hope that helps. If you need help with regular expressions, O'Reilly puts out a nice reference for them. There is also this reference: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php (Link to O'Reilly's e-book at the bottom).

perrohunter

Its workign with the
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ some_page.php [NC]

however, it breaks the css O_O ! !

I dont know why :/

perrohunter

NogDog wrote:
Not sure what you want to accomplish, but you might want to look at the [man]parse_url[/man] function.

how to catch the whole addres, so I can sue parse_url ? it demans a string parameter which I dont get complete with $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; =/

NogDog

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

PS: See http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server for a list of possible $_SERVER elements.

perrohunter

already tried that too =(

I found that someone reported what im trying to do as a bug back there in php4
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9699

what do they do with solved bugs ?

laserlight

I found that someone reported what im trying to do as a bug back there in php4
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9699

That's a different issue.

I cannot seem to find it in the PHP Manual, but I remember reading long ago that the anchor fragment simply is non-existent with respect to PHP. This makes sense since it is only useful on the clientside.

My tests using phpinfo() show that this seems to be the case.

perrohunter

That's it.

As a conclusion for this research I have found that the pound or hashsymbol remains on the client-side

therefore i will need to use a clientside technology such a javascript to solve this issue.

YAOMK

perrohunter wrote:
That's it.

As a conclusion for this research I have found that the pound or hashsymbol remains on the client-side

therefore i will need to use a clientside technology such a javascript to solve this issue.

Seems that way, by the way the "#" in terms of anchoring is called octothorpe.

NogDog

YAOMK wrote:
Seems that way, by the way the "#" in terms of anchoring is called octothorpe.

"Octothorpe" is just one of many names for the "#" sign and has no special relevance to its usage in URLs. Perhaps some specification or other uses the term, but that's just a choice -- probably one trying to sound more technical than necessary, particularly since "number sign" is more easily understood, has been in use much longer (see etymology of octothorpe), and in any case "is the preferred Unicode name for the codepoint represented by that glyph" (according to Wikipedia).

perrohunter

yeah, i tried pound, number symbol and tic tac toe symbol :/

bpat1434

you forgot about sharp sign 🙂

Weedpacket

And hash.... but I note that RFC3986 follows Unicode in calling it the "number sign".