Changeing the ? and & in URI's

[Anon]

Is it possible to change the default way url's and uri's are interpreted by php (or apache/iis). I am setting up a simple site where I give users the ability to generate their own page, viewable by all.

eg
if url
http://www.domain.com/username

I want index.php to be called giving 'username' as a parameter.

thanks

len.

[maxholman]

You could use something similar to these examples...

http://www.example.com/?user1
print $QUERY_STRING; // outputs 'user1'

...or....

http://www.example.com/index.php/user1
print $PATH_INFO; // outputs '/user1'

You could rename 'index.php' to 'users' and force your webserver to parse the file 'users' using PHP, this makes it look a lot neater.

http://www.example.com/users/user1
print $PATH_INFO; // still outputs '/user1'

Apart from that, I dont know of any other ways.

Also, PATH_INFO or QUERY_STRING might only be available on specific webservers? (I know they are defined under Apache). But there should be an equivalent on others.

[phpbigot]

Try this:

if(isset($PATH_INFO)) { 
       
      $vardata = explode('/', $PATH_INFO); 
         
        $num_param = count($vardata); 
         
        // echo "$PATH_INFO"; 
        if($num_param % 2 == 0) { 
         
            $vardata[] = ''; 
            $num_param++; 
        } 
     
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for($i&nbsp;=&nbsp;1;&nbsp;$i&nbsp;<&nbsp;$num_param;&nbsp;$i&nbsp;+=&nbsp;2)&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$$vardata[$i]&nbsp;=&nbsp;$vardata[$i+1];&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//echo&nbsp;&nbsp;"fff&nbsp;{$$vardata[$i]}&nbsp;=&nbsp;{$vardata[$i+1]}<br>";