I believe Kevin is on the right track there. To expand a bit, you can use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] with these urls instead of $_GET to make use of the data it contains example for url http://www.example.com/index.php/foo/bar <?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']; ?> produces: /foo/bar You can then parse this string, (generally by using the '/' character as a deliminator) and extract the data. MediaWiki even provides information (can't think of where at the moment) on how to use Apache's mod_rewrite to hide index.php thus making the url even cleaner: http://www.example.com/foo/bar Cheers! - Joe On 4/21/06, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >could anyone tell me why the following url doesn't > >generate a "page not found" ? > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php/manual/ > > >you can try with a longer url after the last .php. > > > >I tried with ../manual instead of manual and this produces a 404. > > > >I checked with www.php.net because my own site does the same and I > >wanted to be sure it didn't come from my config. > > > >thanks > > > >Nicolas Figaro > > tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >The other thing that could happen is they could be > >using something like the Apache mod_rewrite (some > >info at http://www.modrewrite.com/ among others) which > >can dynamically change the requested URL to a more > >standard URL before sending back to the user. > > > >Something like this: > >http://www.testserver.com/tgryffyn/homepage/middlesection > > > >Could be turned into something like: > > > http://www.testserver.com/userpage.php?user=tgryffyn&page=home#middleanchor > > > >But to the user requesting the page, it'll always look like the first > URL. > > > >Forgive me if I got any syntax or capability of mod_rewrite wrong, > >never used it myself just know that's the general sort of thing that it > does. > > > > > > Pretty good thoughts, there. Some years ago, Tim Perdue > (of PHPBuilder and SourceForge fame) had a popular > article on "Search Engine Friendly URL's" (or some such), > in which he described use of the Apache ForceLocal > directive to make a site just One Big Script, parsing > the slashed portions of the query string as variables > (instead of GET, a la "?section=man&term=foo") so that > the browser appears to be accessing documents in subfolders, > but it's really just telling the server to grab a page with certain > values defined in the URI. > > It sure looks like a possibility of this or similar magic in > this case. Of course, I could be way off my tree... > > Kevin Kinsey > > -- > Byte your tongue. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
