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Posted by Jochem Maas on 08/04/05 16:38
Esteamedpw@aol.com wrote:
>
> Thanks Mark and Sonu... as much as I've learned over the last few months I
> think I'm still a little confused about some of this stuff. I appreciate the
> Help you've given me :-)
>
> Would any of you know about any tutorials on something like this? books with
> tutorials, etc? If I knew what it was called I would google it - I'm just
> not sure exactly what it might be called lol
trying googling for something like 'automated [web]site generation tool'
and/or read up on sites that offer commercials versions of what you want to do
in order in order to determine what terminology they use. e.g.:
http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/sitebuilder/
>
> Thanks again fellas :-D
>
>
> In a message dated 8/1/2005 10:45:14 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> mark@markcain.com writes:
>
> I have coded this type of website for many years and have run the gamut of
> trying different things -- originally, 8 years ago, I used perl with flat
> files and physical folders but in the recent past I have used PHP, MySQL and
> dynamic folders.
>
> In my opinion the best way to build this site is with dynamic folders via
> custom 404 error handling. Here how it works:
>
> You build the pages for things like "contact us" "my store" "my stuff" or
> whatever. Then you send someone to the site with an address like:
> mydomain.com/joe which doesn't exist. A custom 404 error handler picks up
> the error and parses the URL to identify "joe" as a unique ID. The 404
> script pulls "joe's" info from a database and populates the pages with his
> custom contact info then delivers the page. Joe's ID usually gets stuffed
> into a cookie and then when the person comes back to the site at a later
> date, they are delivered joe's info.
>
> That's it in a nut shell. Be sure that you deliver 200 headers and not 404
> headers when delivering the dynamic folder.
>
> Now you can do the physical folders and every time someone "signs up" you
> can take the template and populate their pages and store these pages in a
> real folder named "joe." But, be aware using this method. Success (if
> having lots of users is your goal) will be your downfall because this system
> is not easily scalable. Just think what happens if you have 500 folders, or
> 5,000 or 50,000 folders with every folder having a copy of the files in
> them.
>
> Here is a 404 script I use:
>
> <?header("HTTP/1.0 200 OK");
> require('/home/pathToLookUp/getinfo.php');
> ?>
>
> And here is the start of the getinfo.php script:
>
> <?
> list($blank, $site, $page) = split("\/", $REDIRECT_URL, 3);
> $query = "select * from stores where stores.name = '$site' and stores.active
> = 'Y' ";
>
> ....
> ?>
>
> Be sure to code the handling of an actual 404 just in case you don't have a
> user named joe or the surfer miss types.
>
> There's a ton of work in getting all of the bases covered - but it's sweet
> when it's done and you will know a lot of how a server works.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mark Cain
>
>
>
>
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