How to create a dynamic page that looks like a regular page?

Hey guys,

I know how to create a dynamic page with dynamic affiliate links and content dependent on parsing the url using GET.

e.g.

http://digitalpoint.com/?id=bob
http://digitalpoint.com/?id=ben
http://digitalpoint.com/?id=fred

and then each page will have affiliate links like:

tinyurl.com/bob
tinyurl.com/ben
tinyurl.com/fred


But my problem is that the resulting url contains question marks ("?") in the url.

Sure, I know how to use .htaccess to convert the source urls:

e.g.

http://digitalpoint.com/?id=bob
to
http://digitalpoint.com/bob

so it looks more clean. I know how to do this. But the problem is that this is a redirect. The final URL is still "http://digitalpoint.com/?id=bob" It still has this pesky question mark.

I would like to get rid of it.

Let me show you an example here of a site that someone has made:

http://revator.com/fred-review/beat-eczema.html
http://revator.com/bob-review/beat-eczema.html
http://revator.com/ben-review/beat-eczema.html

You can see here that it is totally dynamic, the banner links are rewritten for fred or bob or ben, BUT it just looks like a regular site. Any idea how to program this in PHP?

thanks

 

You need to use htaccess and mod_rewrite.
And no it is not a redirect than.

 

Thanks for that!

Looking into it now.

Cheers mate

 

If you just want http://blahblah/bob then you may also be able to do it by using $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. Check and see if you get anything meaningful in there when sticking an extra /whatever on the end of your URL. It depends on server configuration.

 

Here's a useful link for that http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/url-rewriting/

It will generate it for you and you'll just have to implement it into your current script/htaccess