On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:59 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > On 6/13/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > > In tandem to Robert's post regarding the 301 (or 302, to be fair > ;-P) HTTP response, you should also check into Apache's mod_rewrite. > I still remember the quote by heart, but not who said it: > "Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. > Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo." -- Brian Moore It's from the mod_rewrite documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html 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
