As a general rule, if you want to see everything useful that is available to you in your script: http://php.net/phpinfo In particular, this will show you the PATH_INFO if it's there, and the REQUEST_URI if that's there, and... If neither of those are available, I don't think you'll be able to do what you want... It could just be a server configuration issue. PHP doesn't really "decide" what to put in $_SERVER. Your web server puts a bunch of stuff in the environment SERVER variable, and PHP just passes the buck on to you to do something useful with it. Or so I understand it. On Thu, August 17, 2006 9:43 am, 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. > > -- > Dave M G > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
