Virtual URL with PHP?

[NoComment]

Hi there!

Is it possible, that every request to your website executes only one and the same PHP script everytime?

An example:

https://www.example.com

https://www.example.com/thread-183

https://www.example.com/article-92

https://www.example.com/start

https://www.example.com/files/image.jpg

will all execute a single script, let's say "index.php" , which somehow has access to the parameters (none, thread-183, article-92, start, files/image.jpg). Is something like this possible? If so, how and how can "index.php" then catch those parameters?

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

[mwasif]

Apache mod_rewrite does this trick and this is called URL rewriting. You can google on these keywords and you will find a lot of stuff.

After enabling mod_rewrite in Apache, you create rewrite rules to accomodate such URLs. A sample .htaccess rule can be

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)$ index.php?modul e=thread&id=$1 [L]

[NoComment]

Apache mod_rewrite does this trick and this is called URL rewriting. You can google on these keywords and you will find a lot of stuff.

After enabling mod_rewrite in Apache, you create rewrite rules to accomodate such URLs. A sample .htaccess rule can be

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^thread-([0-9]+)$ index.php?modul e=thread&id=$1 [L]

Thank you so much! It seems like this is exactly what I need. I'll go google for it. If something I don't understand pops up, I'll just give a shout ;).

[kovik]

If you are using Apache 1.3 or some other version below v2, be aware that you can't use PCRE, but have to settle for POSIX. If you aren't familiar with POSIX, I wrote a tutorial on parsing clean URLs through PHP if you're interested.

[NoComment]

If you are using Apache 1.3 or some other version below v2, be aware that you can't use PCRE, but have to settle for POSIX. If you aren't familiar with POSIX, I wrote a tutorial on parsing clean URLs through PHP if you're interested.

Okay, I'll have a look into that, too. Thank you all so much for your help :)