[RESOLVED] New Db row creates new folder

Dj-Dark-1

Hey all, I know this is probably a simple question as lots of websites do this. I have a website where users can log in and have profile pages which are located at :

profilepage.php?user=<? echo "$username"; ?>

How could I get it so that when a user registers he has his own folder e.g. If I registered with my site then my page would be.

www.mywebsite.com/users/Dj-Dark-1/index.php

Does a script like this create a new directory for each user or is there a folder called $username or something. This is probably really easy.

Thanks in advanced, Dj.

bradgrafelman

Google "mod_rewrite" if your server is running Apache; you can redirect URL's like that to a single 'profilepage' script behind-the-scenes. Basically, the idea is that a URL says absolutely nothing about the directory structure - the webserver translates the URLs into anything it wants. mod_rewrite allows you to create patterns to match certain URLs to certain paths, such as changing "/users/Dj-Dark-1/" into "profilepage.php?DJ-Dark-1".

sudh

Hi DJ,
you mean if u register in a site then at url : www.yoursite.com/users/username
will open ur profile page...

this can be done by two methods :
1. By .htaccess ...
2. By creating new folder...

i have done by both ways in my sites...

for folder creations

when any user register then where u have insert query for new user there u can create new folder

mkdir("user/$username",0777);

$dest="user/$username";//folder where u want to copy index file of the user

$curdir=opendir($src1);
		while($file = readdir($curdir))
		{
	    echo $file;
		 copy("companyfront/".$file,$dest."/".$file);
		}

"companyfront" is folder where you have index.php for the users...
now in index.php of user file u have to take value dynamically from the table
by reading url and getting username...🙂

sudh

bradgrafelman;10910013 wrote:
Google "mod_rewrite" if your server is running Apache; you can redirect URL's like that to a single 'profilepage' script behind-the-scenes. Basically, the idea is that a URL says absolutely nothing about the directory structure - the webserver translates the URLs into anything it wants. mod_rewrite allows you to create patterns to match certain URLs to certain paths, such as changing "/users/Dj-Dark-1/" into "profilepage.php?DJ-Dark-1".

mod_rewrite is .htaccess function or what

kostis12345

Hi,can you please explain me the code posted by sudh.
Thanks in Advance.

bradgrafelman

Is there any real reason to create a folder for every user that registers?

sudh

kostis12345;10910019 wrote:
Hi,can you please explain me the code posted by sudh.
Thanks in Advance.

what u have not understand...

in this we are making new folder by mkdir() function... which takes folder name and permission as parameter...

then we will make index.php file in one folder...which will be used for all users

now we will copy that index.php file from that folder to new folder which we made through mkdir()...

now in when u type ur url... that index.php file will run 🙂

bradgrafelman

sudh wrote:
now we will copy that index.php file from that folder to new folder

So let's say 1,000 users register. Months go by, and you decide to give your site a facelift and alter the way it looks. Do you have to go and edit 1,000 files?

Using mod_rewrite to redirect those 1,000 URLs back to one single file would mean that no, you only need to modify one file.

Dj-Dark-1

Thanks this worked great, the mod_rewrite worked like a charm. Few errors to fix though.