RE: Dynamic sub directory listing without redirect

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence [mailto:terence@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:19 PM
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Dynamic sub directory listing without redirect
> 
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I am trying to allow dynamic URL's for my users to remember 
> similiar to:
> 
> www.mysite.com/joesoap
> 
> So I want to use "joesoap" in a PHP script to pick up the 
> user's details 
> from a MySQL database. If the "joesoap" does not exist in the table
> I will handle that.
> 
> So basically I have one file www.mysite.com/index.php which should do 
> all the processing.
> 
> I have tried with the apache .htaccess mod_rewrite, however 
> when I echo 
> $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] I can't detect the "joesoap". It returns 
> /index.php.
> 
> Of course the easiest way is to do something like
> www.mysite.com/index.php?username=joesoap
> but that is too long and complicated for our users. As we 
> have thousands 
> of users, I don't want to create actual directories.
> 
> Furthermore can this be done too (without a joesoap file):
> www.mysite.com/joesoap?show_extra_details=yes
> 
> Any advice/links would be much appreciated. If I am barking 
> up the wrong 
> tree throw me a bone please.
> 
> Thanks alot
> Terence

Hi Terence,

I would handle this in a custom 404 error script.  Essentially, just have
the 404 page parse out the "joesoap", check the database to see if its
valid, and act accordingly.

JM

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