Posted by MS on 11/20/06 10:32

I am not an expert at .htaccess but this should be straight forward for
somebody in the know and could save me hours of research.

I have URLs to profiles...

www.mysite.com/profile.php?lookup=7

where the 7 is the user_id.

What I want is to make an Easy URL as follows

www.mysite.com/myusername

Obviously this page does not exist, but what I want to try and accomplish
is...

If myusername is not a valid page I want to redirect to index.php passing
myusername as an argument.

EG.
www.mysite.com/index.php?username=myusername

Where I will then search for the username within my database and then,if
found, redirect to the correct page..
www.mysite.com/profile.php?lookup=7

Or is there a better way to do this?

Thnx
MS

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