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Jul 20.2006

Hello everybody,

I am wondering how, (for instance) blog sites or [url]www.myspace.com[/url], let people make their own dynamic pages. I’m currently working on a website where people should make and maintain there own pages eventually.

How do i get a string in an url to get information out of my database. Like with myspaces.com, where (for example) [url]http://www.myspace.com/mike[/url] gets all info about mike and [url]http://www.myspace.com/john[/url] get all info about john (random names)

And finally is there any code/tutorial available for this?

I dont even know where to start on this one so all help is welcome. Thanks for your time.

Kind regards,

Tim
The Netherlands

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@valenokJul 20.2006 — $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]

$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]

$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]

host.com/james equals to /james/index.php
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@The_Little_GuyJul 20.2006 — I would like to know the same thing.

I am making portfolio host. and I want the user to have:

mysite.com/tim

mysite.com/joe

mysite.com/billy

etc. etc.

My closest guess of how this is done, is that it takes the below links, and converts them.

mysite.com/index.php?user=tim

mysite.com/index.php?user=joe

mysite.com/index.php?user=billy

otherwise there is a directory for each user and they all have there own index.php
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYJul 20.2006 — nah it's called "cruft-free" URLs, there are a lot of articles about those if you search. You have to create a apache htaccess to transform the adress,

that means for example if the user types:

http://www.domain.com/lcf/blog/2006

if will be read as http://www.domain.com/index.php?user=lcf&page=blog&year=2006 (example)

further infos: http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/cruft-free-urls/
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