On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:17 +0900, Dave M G wrote: > PHP, > > I've implemented "friendly urls" in my PHP scripts, so that people can > type in things like: > http://website.com/Cats And Dogs > ... and they'll be taken to the right page. > > However, when they get to the page, the url will read: > http://website.com/Cats%20And%20Dogs > > Not so pretty. > > I've noticed that Wikipedia will alter the URI to become more readable, > by replacing the spaces with underscores, like so: > http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_And_Dogs > > I'd like to be able to do that with my system, but I can't quite figure > out where in the process of getting a URI request and returning a page > that the URI will get set. > > Can anyone help me with figuring out at what point I can gain control > over the URI sent back, as Wikipedia does? If you're on a linux box you can use: wget -S "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scripting language" ... to see an example of what Wikipedia does. But to expound... :) Wikipedia issues a 301 (permanently moved) response header (don't tell Richard Lynch ;) thus redirecting your browser to the underscore version. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
