Dynamic URL's

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    How can I make a dynamic folder structure, for folders that don't exist?

    ie, I want to make:

    www.mywebsite.com/billy
    www.mywebsite.com/sally
    www.mywebsite.com/bob
    etc (for a million other dynamic names)

    But I want every one of those urls to display the same content (that I will derive from an include).

    How can I do the above? I can't think of a way.
     
    MrLeN, Mar 25, 2011 IP
  2. Alex Roxon

    Alex Roxon Active Member

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    I don't understand exactly what you're trying to accomplish. You would need a Rewrite Rule in an htaccess file (provided you're server is running Apache with mod_rewrite).

    That would have to be something like:
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z])+$ test.php [L]
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    You'd have to be careful if they all had the exact same content. You would need to specify either in a robots.txt file or meta robots tag that you don't want search engines to spider and index the pages, else you will be punished for duplicate content.
     
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  3. jackburd

    jackburd Active Member

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    yes you can write htaccess or create folder.. or permalinks if your using wordpress
     
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  4. MrLeN

    MrLeN Well-Known Member

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    Ok, I will explain better:

    I have this include:

    /inc/username-info.php

    In that include, I will set variables for the username.

    Then, I will create a file:

    /inc/display.php

    This will use all the info that "username-info.php" contains.

    To get a page to know what username to use, I am not going to us:

    www.mywebsite.com/index.php?id=name

    I am going to use:

    www.mywebsite.com/username

    However, the folder "username" doesn't actually exist. It is dynamic.

    So, if someone goes to www.mywebsite.com/username, I want to display a page that conntains the paramaters I have set in the inc folder (for that username).

    How can I make a dynamic folder structure, for folders that don't exist?

    ie, I want to make:

    www.mywebsite.com/billy
    www.mywebsite.com/sally
    www.mywebsite.com/bob
    etc (for a million other dynamic names)

    But I want every one of those urls to display the same content (that I will derive from an include).

    How can I do the above? I can't think of a way.

    P.S. I don't want them to redirect. So I think I might have to use a url rewrite? ..and then have the particular information displayed, according to the username that was entered?
     
    MrLeN, Mar 25, 2011 IP