On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Ethan Whitt <ethan.j.whitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I pasted your example in and it doesn't work for me (again, newbie). I > will play with it and see if I can get it working. My main goal is to have > Ruby-like URL's vs "?var=3425". Is this possible with .php (without > mod_rewrite / something in the http server?) i just typed it into the browser so it could have some mistakes. well to answer your question, yes, you can use external redirects from php, and if you store the query string (part of url past ?) then it can be made accessible to whatever file youve redirected the client to. so like, a client request a page, say, http://youresite.com/somedir?a=5&b=6 in somedir, on your webserver, you just put an index.php file. then in there, you do something like put the values $_GET['a'] and $_GET['b'] in some persistent storage, like $_SESSION, a db, or just in a file somewhere. then you use header to redirect the client to a url that doenst have the query string, something like if(!empty($_GET)) { /// store $_GET vars header('Location: http://yoursite.com/somedir'); } else { /// check storage location for vars to load /// make sure to filter said vars ! } while this approach is effective, i consider it messy / inefficient / cumbersome, and personally favor mod_rewrite. if you look into code igniter or other frameworks, you can see how they are managing the implementation of pretty urls. most of them will favor mod_rewrite, but offer an alternative for people who dont want to use it or dont have access to it (because of hosting provider for example). so you might dig into some open source code for a nice tested solution to your problem. and digging through open source code can just be so much fun ;D -nathan
