clean urls

[somaboy mx]

I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

any suggestions, links to articles etc?

thanks.

..soma

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: clean urls

*** somaboy mx wrote/escribió (Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:08:55 +0200):[color=blue]
> I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
> http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
> http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
> mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.
>
> any suggestions, links to articles etc?[/color]

If you don't want your webserver to parse your URLs, then you must have
real files and directories (or at least symlinks, but of course these are
quite server-specific too).

A way to do so would be creating static files from a PHP script every time
your database contents are modified.


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[Daniel Tryba]

Re: clean urls

somaboy mx <nosuch@fakemai l.fk> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
> http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
> http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
> mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.[/color]

You could be lucky and have the first URL working (if the second one
already works (depending on httpd configuration (Apache Multiview
IIRC))) and find 233 in _SERVER['PATH_INFO']. But that still depends on
platform. Alternatively you could build an intelligent 404 handler which
should work on all platforms supporting dynamic 404 handlers (which I
guess is most), but again platform dependend.

Most likely to work out of the box is http://www.mysite.com/products.php/233.

But I guess there is no single guaranteed multiplatform solution.

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Re: clean urls

somaboy mx (nosuch@fakemai l.fk) wrote:
: I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
: http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
: http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
: mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

: any suggestions, links to articles etc?

If this is apache then it works, you don't need to do anything, except get
the "products" to be known as a script.

The "unused" parts of the path will then be given to you by the
environment variable PATH_INFO

If you use the name "products.p hp" then it should work as-is.

http://www.mysite.com/products.php/more/stuff/goes/here

(PATH_INFO will contain "/more/stuff/goes/here")

If you really want to use "products" then you need to set something up so
force apache to recognize the script as being a php script. Normally
apache is configured to look for the ending ".php", but you can flag a
specific files for special handling, or an entire directory, by putting
the right rule in the conf file, or in the .htaccess file, though I
haven't done that for this task so I can't show you an example.


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