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Freddy
Freddy

Reputation: 867

Username not displaying in URL even when specifying Rewrite rules

I am really struggling understanding how to modify URL using Rewrite rules. I have seen the following link : Directly adding username to URL PHP - but the following knowledge does not seem to work for me.

I need the url to say eg. http://localhost/profile_page/Freddy

Rather than: http://localhost/profile_page.php

.htaccess (Which is located in in the default Wamp folder, C:\wamp\www)

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wamp/www/

    RewriteRule ^/?$ profile_page.php
    RewriteRule ^/me?$ profile_page.php
    RewriteRule ^/profile_page.php/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/?$ profile_page.php?u=$1
    RewriteRule ^/profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/?$ profile_page.php?u=$1
    RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/?$ profile_page.php?u=$1

I have the following questions:

1. With the rules above, although I have limited knowledge in this field, I expect it to convert the url of http://localhost/profile_page.php to display the name of the user logged in i.e. http://localhost/profile_page/Freddy.

Details of the user who are logged in can be gained from the session variable $username or the variable $user which obtains the username of the user after "u=" in the url (see below). However, the url does not display the name of the user logged in, it just says http://localhost/profile_page.php when, if logged in as Freddy, I want it to say http://localhost/profile_page/Freddy.

<?php
    $user = "";
    if (isset($_GET['u'])) {
        $user = ($_GET['u']);
        if (ctype_alnum($user)) { //check if the user exists
            $check = mysqli_query($connect, "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$user'");
            if (mysqli_num_rows($check) === 1) {
                $get        = mysqli_fetch_assoc($check);
                $user       = $get['username'];
                $fname      = $get['first_name'];
                echo "<h2>Profile page for: $user</h2>";
            } else { // refresh page 
                echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=http://localhost/index.php\">";
                exit();
            }
        }
    }
?>

2. If, in the URL, I type http://localhost/profile_page.php?u=Fred, it echo's it is on Fred's page, but displays the profile page of the user logged in, so it displays posts and information for Freddy, rather than Fred, as specified in the URL.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 71

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785481

You can replace your .htaccess with this:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(me)?/?$ profile_page.php [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^profile(?:_page)?/([\w-]+)/?$ profile_page.php?u=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ profile_page.php?u=$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 0

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