grab info from url

[ohdang888]

ok so sometimes on sites you see this:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/234522/This-is-a-blog-about-blogs

 

so the blog id is 234522, and the title is This-is-a-blog-about-blogs

 

so instead of looking for the 234522 folder, it has it set so it won't go to the folder, but rather the "blog" folder, then grabs the info from the url...

 

i know this can be done like id=234526&title=this is the title

 

but how do you do it that other way???

 

Thanks.

 

[DarkWater]

mod_rewrite

[kevinak]

Ok, I had this brilliant idea a little while back. But I have a bad feeling that using mod_rewrite is a lot safer.

 

function curPageURL() {
$pageURL = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
$pageURL .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
} else {
  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
return $pageURL;
}

$whatever_ID = curPageURL();

$whatever_ID2 = explode('/',$whatever_ID);

 

Basically you store the url into an array with that function. Then you simply explode that array and pull the data from it.

[DarkWater]

mod_rewrite is faster, easier, (probably) safer, and just works better.

[kevinak]

I'm going to agree with this, seriously. But do you have a link to a place with a good mod_rewrite tutorial?

[DarkWater]

It's just regular expressions...