Fwd: Subject: URL question

"Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]" <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:37:45 +0100

Easy enough, using Mod Rewrite on apache (you didn't say which server you 
use, so I'm afraid you'll have to upgrade if using IIS) : Create a file in 
a text editor. Save it as .htaccess (dot-htaccess as the filename) in the 
http://www.blablah.com/examples/ directory - not in the root folder or 
you'll route every page request on the site through your PHP script. If 
you're using [eg notepad], make sure it doesn't save it as .htaccess.txt !

The .htaccess file you create contains the following lines :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /examples
RewriteRule (.* ) /examples/exampleprocessor.php?mls=$1 [L]

That short regex will take any character string and append it to the MLS 
query string, which you then process as normal in your PHP script (i.e. as 
if the user typed in a URL of 
http://www.blablah.com/examples/exampleprocessor.php?mls=blahblahblah

Make sure your script works fully with the checked query string before you 
do this ;-)

Cheers - Neil

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From: "Chris Payne" <cjp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:00:27 -0400
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Subject: URL question

Hi there everyone,

My client needs to be able to have their url www.blahblah.com
<http://www.blahblah.com/>  pickup the product number but I can't do it the
way I'd want (which would be www.blahblah.com/?mls=examplenumber, instead
they said it MUST be www.blahblah.com/examplenumber - how can I grab the
number AFTER the .com in PHP so that I can process it with MySQL without it
being assigned a variable name, just the number?

Chris

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