1. assign a 'page' a 'friendly url' - this is probably done in your CMS 2. write a routine that will generate a 'friendly url' for a given 'page' in your cms; this allows you to stick the 'friendly urls' in a menu for instance. 3. write a routine for taking any given url and trying to match it against a 'page' in your CMS (let it return the page data and/or id if successful) 4. setup your webserver to redirect non-existent urls to a handler script that will use the routine from 3 to try and find the correct page. sticking to apache this can be done in at least 2 ways: a, use mod_rewrite - to which I can only say RTFM ;-) b, use the ErrorDocument directive, which would look something like: ErrorDocument 404 /myhandler.php 5. write a 'handler script' as mentioned in 4. if your are using "ErrorDocument" you will need to output a 'Status: 200' header if your handler finds a page matching the requested url. 6. do var_dump($_REQUEST, $_SERVER) in your 'handler script' to find out exactly what info you have to play with - you should be able to find everything you need. Dave M G wrote: > PHP List, > > My goal is to create user and search engine friendly URLs like: > mysite.com/my_web_page_title > > Instead of: > mysite.com/index.php?pageID=1 > > I asked about this before: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=113597988027012&w=2 > > And there is this helpful tutorial: > http://agachi.name/weblog/archives/2005/01/30/rewriting-dynamic-urls-into-friendly-urls.htm > > > Both of which refer to a variable called $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. > > But, in the php.net manual, in the predefined variables page, > 'PATH_INFO' is only obliquely referenced in the $_SERVER variable > description, under the 'PATH_TRANSLATED' element. > > When I've tried echoing out the contents of $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], I get > nothing. > > I'm trying to set it so that pages are named according to their title in > my MySQL database. So my script will pull "my_web_page_title" out of the > URL, match that against the database, and then display the appropriate > contents. > > I thought I could do this by simply making my link into: > <a href="index.php/my_web_page_title">My Web Page Title</a> > > And then stripping out the "index.php", and using the remainder for > both the URL and the database lookup. > > But, while I'm sure there are more steps than that, I'm halted initially > because I'm not sure where in the $_SERVER array my URL is being stored. > > Any advice on how to proceed here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
