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Zachsweb
Zachsweb

Reputation: 31

Vanity URL Creation

I've been looking for an answer but I just can't find one. I'm not looking for a way for a user on my site to be able to quickly get to their page, and quite frankly, the same question keeps popping up, "How to Create a Facebook Profile URL" or, "How to use ".htaccess". I'm just looking for a simple bit of PHP that can create basic vanity URL's so I can quickly access different pages on my site and make it look more neat.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 302

Answers (2)

WhyNotHugo
WhyNotHugo

Reputation: 9924

PHP doesn't support vanity URLs at all, you need to configure your webserver to use them.

.htdocs are configuration files for apache, however, your case may be:

  1. Apache hasn't been configured to process these.
  2. Your server isn't apache httpd.

Upvotes: 0

MDrollette
MDrollette

Reputation: 6927

Put this in .htaccess to send all requests to index.php (this is called a front controller)

Options +FollowSymLinks  
RewriteEngine On  

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  

RewriteRule ^.*$ ./index.php

Then put this in your index.php

<?php
  // get the request
  $request  = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

  // split the path by '/'  
  $params     = split("/", $request);

You now can request a page like: http://foo.com/one/two/three

Your $params variable will now look like:

$params = array('', 'one', 'two', 'three');

You can now use those parameters to call functions or redirect to pages or whatever you want.

This is a very simplified example but it should give you the basic idea.

Upvotes: 2

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