eliminating the filename

[Anon]

hello

recently i've taken up php simply because i hate the direction that the whole microsoft .net thing is going... in asp, i used to have directories with the index.asp and have querystrings attatched to that... so since that is the default page, i could enter
http://www.mysite.com/?string=bob

instead of
http://www.mysite.com/index.asp?string=bob

i did this because obviously it makes it look a bit more professional...

well, i'm trying to do this with php.. i have index.php set to default, but php doesn't seem to want to grab the querystring unless the whole filename is there...

i have a conditional require statement so different pages are required depending on the querystring... it works just fine when when i type the whole filename in "index.php?string=bob" but when i do "/?string=bob" it returns empty for the variable...

any suggestions here? im running on personal webserver right now, but the real server will be a win2k server... heh i know windoze bloze.. but this is what i hafta work with...

thanks 😃

[kailien]

www.mysite.com/?var=blah

works for me using Linux, Apache 1.3.17, PHP 4.0.5, and MySQL 3.23.39.

Make sure in httpd.conf, your directory index starts first with index.php, like this:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Kai

[Anon]

maybe it has something to do with the windows OS... i know when im using normal variables from forms and such, if i don't run and empty() and they are empty, it produces an error that the variable is undefined... 🙁... is there something im missing somewhere?