Making a query look like a directory

I've got a question, and am not sure how in-depth this is...

A buddy of mine told me there's a way to make a script that accepts input and looks like a directory structure...

For example:

/something/input1/
/something/input2/

Where input1 and input2 are not actual directories, but data being passed to /something/index.php

I know you can pull this off with mod-rewrite, but am just wondering if it's also possible with PHP...

Thanks

 

I see what you mean, you need to specify the parameters in a .htaccess file. But php alone can't do it, because server doesn't know that the link is symbolic.

 

You can actually create the directory with php, but MOD rewrite works good for this.

 

it is possible - you can set via mod_rewrite to redirect any request that's not a filename to index.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Code (markup):

you can then query $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_URI'] or whatever to grab the address they typed and compare it against what you need...

hth

 

This is probably the easiest code to use (allows variables):
Edit: Just to let you know, you need to create a .htaccess with the code and upload it to the main directory.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^something/(.*)/?$ index.php?input=$1

Code (markup):

The (.*) will become the variable $1 which will be passed to the php script using $_GET[];
If you want to use more than one variable, you can seperate them with another /, _ or anything else which wont be used in the variable. Example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^something/(.*)/(.*)/?$ index.php?input=$1&anotherinput=$1

Code (markup):

If you just want a simple redirect with variables, you can simple use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^something somthing.php

Code (markup):

The above will redirect somthing/ to somthing.php

I hope that helps!
Regards

 

One of the most common rewrite rules for SEO friendly URLs

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

HTML:

So RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d means don't apply RW rule if requested URL is directory and the seconds same but for file.


RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 means anything you get in URI post-pend to index.php

so URL: like
http://www.example.com/index.php?module=news&year=2008&category=coding&id=45&page=2

Will be something like
http://www.example.com/index.php/news/2008/coding/Optimizing-A-PHP-Code?page=2

and finally
http://www.example.com/news/2008/coding/Optimizing-A-PHP-Code?page=2

so there is a great benefit for SEO , as to search engine id=45 doesn't mean anything but having Optimizing-A-PHP-Code does mean a lot and weights a lot