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user194076
user194076

Reputation: 9017

Why would you use two pages in a row for a website address?

This is just a curiosity. I've seen this couple times:

http://www.website.com/index.php/en/contacts.html

What is a reasoning behind this logic? Why do we have php file followed by html file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 72

Answers (4)

Andreas Wong
Andreas Wong

Reputation: 60516

In PHP (And I believe other server side language), you can get the path after index.php by referring to the superglobal $_SERVER['path_info'] in this case the value is

/en/contacts.html

, you can then process the path in your application as however you see fit (for instance in MVC, /users/list, you'd initialize users controller and run list action on it)

Upvotes: 1

clexmond
clexmond

Reputation: 1549

This is most likely using a framework that includes some routing mechanism. The index.php takes in /en/contacts.html as a parameter, retrieves the appropriate file(s) and processes them based on pre-determined rules.

In most cases a rewrite rule is used in Apache or Nginx (or whatever webserver is being used) so the url can be in the form:

http://www.website.com/en/contacts.html

Then everything following the root is interpreted as a parameter in index.php.

Upvotes: 1

Niet the Dark Absol
Niet the Dark Absol

Reputation: 324640

Some people find it easier to have a single index.php file that includes (among other things) things like connecting to the database, the basic layout of the page (navigation, footer, etc.) and suchlike, then have it include the actual file (in this case /en/contacts.html) inside it.

Personally, I think this is a bad idea because there are so many better ways to do this. One of them being the auto_prepend_file and auto_append_file options in php.ini.

Upvotes: 1

zatatatata
zatatatata

Reputation: 4821

Impossible to tell for sure, but I'd bet on the "en/contacts.html" being the path to the file for index.php to include (super bad practice). Do not use this syntax of URLs, as they aren't user nor search-engine friendly.

Upvotes: 1

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