Posted by Richard Lynch on 02/11/05 18:45

Brian Dunning wrote:
> I see URLs formatted like this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/xyz
>
> How do you read that "xyz," since there's no "/?x=" preceding it? Is it
> not a get parameter?

If you can't do mod_rewrite you can use:
http://tinyurl.com/index.php/xyz
with:

<?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];?>

I use it all the time, especially to pass parameters to dynamic images and
PDFs so that Microsoft Internet Explorer (various versions) can't screw
up.

BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1
GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf

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