Handling Special URLs in PHP

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I'm creating a classified ad site where each ad is identified by a
number - say 234563. The user wishing to view the ad will something
like this -

http://www.abcclassfieds.com/234563

I want this url to be redirect to a php display page say -

http://www.abcclassfieds.com/showad.php?adid=234563

How does one do this?

Please let me know.

Thanks

EY

[Michael Fesser]

Re: Handling Special URLs in PHP

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[color=blue]
>I'm creating a classified ad site where each ad is identified by a
>number - say 234563. The user wishing to view the ad will something
>like this -
>
>http://www.abcclassfieds.com/234563
>
>I want this url to be redirect to a php display page say -
>
>http://www.abcclassfieds.com/showad.php?adid=234563
>How does one do this?[/color]

On Apache servers you could use mod_rewrite.

Micha