Re: [PHPLIB] username => uid via URL From: Chad Cunningham (ccunning <email protected>)
Date: 11/05/99

The easy way to do this IMHO is to make the URL something like

www.mydomain.com/users/uid

and then in your apache conf add

   <Location /users>
        ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
   </Location>

Then you can create a php script called just users and it can grab the
uid from $PATH_INFO.

Eric Ries wrote:
>
> Greetings all. I have a problem that I think can be pretty easily solved
> using Apache + PHPLIB, but I have not been able to find a solution on the
> web anywhere. Here goes:
>
> I'd like for someone to be able to have their profile on my site (stored
> using PHPLIB in a MySQL database) be addressable by its very own URL.
> If anyone has used mp3.com, they have a very similar setup. The idea is
> this:
>
> I am user "foobar" and I access my web page with a special URL, namely:
>
> www.mydomain.com/foobar
>
> Alas, apache interprets this as a request for a file named foobar. Of
> course, I could always do:
>
> www.mydomain.com/blah.php3/foobar
>
> but that is much more annoying to type in.
>
> I'd much rather just have apache to the translation, so that
>
> www.mydomain.com/foobar
>
> becomes
>
> www.mydomain.com/script.php3?uid=<foobar's uid>
>
> any ideas on how to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric
>
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