Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username

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Thanks Ashley and all the folks out there...

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> > I totally agree with this architecture.
> >
> > You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and in
> > fact still need to define the architecture in detail.
> >
> > Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered?
> >
> > Gaurav Kumar
> > OSWebstudio.Com
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> > <an_red@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         >
> >         > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is
> >         the answer, but
> >         > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than
> >         just /username a la
> >         > twitter."
> >         >
> >         > I will be using many other aspects of my users something
> >         like
> >         > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".
> >
> >
> >         well, it does not matter if this service is user based.
> >
> >         /username/ #as user home page
> >         /username/projects/ #as user projects
> >         /username/gallery/ #as user gallery
> >         /username/etc ...
> >
> >         it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly
> >         know if user exists and you instantly know subsections
> >
> >         In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user
> >         while he could have created only projects, without galleries.
> >         So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to
> >         digit /user/ before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and
> >         bit.ly era
> >
> >         Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name
> >         plus subsection
> >
> >         /p/myprojname/
> >         /p/myprojname/wiki
> >
> >         since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this
> >         semantic alternative, if it suits your requirements.
> >
> >         Regards
> >
> >         > > Thanks,
> >         > > Ash
> >         > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >         > >
> >         > >
> >         > >
> >         > >
> >
> >
> >
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> For help with the mod_rewrite, a Google search never goes amiss, first
> result I found for 'mod_rewrite example' is
> http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite . I looked
> at it quickly and it does cover what you need.
>
> As for what you get as $_GET parameters, that's entirely up to you, and
> as you will see from the above link, it's fairly simple to mess about
> with.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
>

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