website.com/username

Hi

I was wondering how do they do that website.com/any-username thing?


Just like when you signup at twitter, you get u a vanity url like twitter.com/cancer10


Does anyone know?

Pls if someone can explain


Thanks

 

We can do that using .htaccess for translate som3thin9.com/username = som3thin9.com/member.php?id=username

 

what is the syntax pls?

 

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ member.php?id=$1& [L,NC]

 

Hi

Why have you hard coded the member ID 1?

can we not have it hardcoded and it will fetch IDs based on the querystring?


Also, what does [L,NC] mean?

 

If you look correctly, it says $1. This is a reference to the rewriterule before it: ^([^/]+)/? - So $1 contains the member name.

NC makes this case insensitive. (No Case)
L makes it the last rule if the regex is matched.

 

if you dont understand why you talking about it?
have you at least tried?
id=$1 it's a variable which it's not just set to 1 lol

 

Great, at which line in .htaccess do I have to added the following lines?

 

First of all is ur member.php coded

u can add it anywhere at the top or bottom doesnt matter much

 

Works like a charm!


Thanks so much for your kind help

 

Question:

For multiple pages, do I have to write the code as:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ member.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ comments.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ question.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 

Code (markup):

Pls confirm?

 

That wont work u hve to make ur site like this

som3thin9.com/username
som3thin9.com/comments/username
som3thin9.com/questions/username


try this

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ member.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/comments/?$ comments.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/questions/?$ question.php?id=$1& [L,NC] 

Code (markup):

 

You mean I have to create folders to make it work?

pls tell me why cannot i use this code?

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ question.php?id=$1& [L,NC]

Code (markup):

 

u dont have to create a folder if u use that .htaccess then ur links will be accesable that way

u cannot use that code because

for example

if i access yoursite.com/43 then it will actually be member.php?id=43 the script wont know what ur actually wanting the question part and not the member part

 

Oh gotcha!

So, how can the following be translated/coded by .htaccess

site.com/comments.php?id=10&username=cancer10

Code (markup):

 

RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ /comments.php?id=$2&username=$1

som3thin9.com/cancer10/10

that will make the link in that format

 

Question:

For multiple pages, do I have to write the code as:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^.*/([^/\.]+)/?$ userPage.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^.*/([^/\.]+)/?$ questions.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^.*/([^/\.]+)/?$ comments.php?page=$1 [L]

Code (markup):