PHP General, I have a PHP/MySQL web site where there are profiles for performers at a comedy show. The profiles are accessed by passing a variable to the PHP script via URL, which can then look up the right performer data in the database. The resulting URL looks like this: http://www.tokyocomedy.com/people.php?person=6 However, having "?person=6" in the URL is not only ugly, but it makes it hard for people to remember URLs and for the performers to use them when sending out information about themselves. It would be much nicer to have the url look more like this: http://www.tokyocomedy.com/firstname-lastname Or something like that. But I can't figure out if there is a way to control the way the URL reads after the performer has been looked up. And, even if I could, would the system be able to retrieve performer data if someone typed the name directly into the URL. Obviously, I'm still a bit of a beginner with PHP. I may have approached this issue from the wrong starting point, so please let me know if I'm missing something fundamental. Thank you for any advice you may have. -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
