Posted by Michael Fesser on 06/17/07 17:44

..oO(tomwans@gmail.com)

>how do websites such as last.fm have dynamic pages when they dont use
>the standard $_GET url? for example, a dynamic page is generated from
>last.fm/users/drpolish, which looks alot cleaner than something like
>last.fm/users?username=drpolish
>
>just put me in the right direction,

There are many different ways to achieve that. For example you can use a
single script to parse the URL and handle all incoming requests (usually
called a "front controller"), another very common way is to use Apache's
mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL before passing it to the PHP interpreter.

Micha

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