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Vlad
Vlad

Reputation: 795

Twitter Like URL but with a @'s?

I am making a social networking website, and I can't get this done: If the url is http://url.com/@username, I want it to show the http://url.com/user?u=username page, but show http://url.com/@username URL.

However, if there is no @ in the beginning, treat it like a regular URL.

This is my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(\d+)*$ ./user.php?u=$1

The last three lines are what I tried, however that does not work as I wanted it to. I thought it would work because RewriteRule ^/(\d+)*$ takes any URI after the slash, and rewrites it to .user.php?u=*, but that didn't work, so I am looking for some suggestions on what to do next.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 270

Answers (1)

David Tkachuk
David Tkachuk

Reputation: 116

From my understanding of your question, this should work.

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^@(.+?)$ user.php?u=$1 [NC,L]

It requires you to have a @ before the username and it passes it as a GET variable (u) However, a person can add other characters which could confuse it as a username.

/@username/muffins

But if you want this, and to have pages per username (ie, /@username/info, /@username/about, etc) you can just use the explode() function in PHP.

If you just want it to get the username and nothing else, you can try

RewriteRule ^@([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ user.php?u=$1 [NC,L]

Hope this helps! :)

Upvotes: 3

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