Help with creating ForceType application

[Anon]

I don't know if I am on the right site or not to ask this question.

I currently have the following to bring up a users profile on my site.

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tim/

This method is doing the following through apache and PHP.

<Location /profiles>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Location>

// break down url to determine the url array
$URL_ARRAY = explode ("/" , $REQUEST_URI);

$URL_ONE = $URL_ARRAY[1];
$URL_TWO = $URL_ARRAY[2];

From the $URL_TWO I would then grab the users profile tim from the database.

Now how would I create it to make it more virtual.

Either have http://www.mydomain.com/tim/ or http://profiles.mydomain.com/tim/

Has anyone created this sort of system?

[Anon]

You would be a lot better off using mod_rewrite to do this. See the excellent tutorial that comes with the Apache docs. (It's on the right side of the documentation index page.)