Posted by Jim Moseby on 10/08/05 08:06

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence [mailto:terence@sunway.edu.my]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:19 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Dynamic sub directory listing without redirect
>
>
> Hi List,
>
> I am trying to allow dynamic URL's for my users to remember
> similiar to:
>
> www.mysite.com/joesoap
>
> So I want to use "joesoap" in a PHP script to pick up the
> user's details
> from a MySQL database. If the "joesoap" does not exist in the table
> I will handle that.
>
> So basically I have one file www.mysite.com/index.php which should do
> all the processing.
>
> I have tried with the apache .htaccess mod_rewrite, however
> when I echo
> $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] I can't detect the "joesoap". It returns
> /index.php.
>
> Of course the easiest way is to do something like
> www.mysite.com/index.php?username=joesoap
> but that is too long and complicated for our users. As we
> have thousands
> of users, I don't want to create actual directories.
>
> Furthermore can this be done too (without a joesoap file):
> www.mysite.com/joesoap?show_extra_details=yes
>
> Any advice/links would be much appreciated. If I am barking
> up the wrong
> tree throw me a bone please.
>
> Thanks alot
> Terence

Hi Terence,

I would handle this in a custom 404 error script. Essentially, just have
the 404 page parse out the "joesoap", check the database to see if its
valid, and act accordingly.

JM

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