[Joomla Component Page but I don't want a menu item]

Tim,

 

With Joomla you can access your components default view by going to

"/index.php?option=com_mycomponent" 

 

You can access a different view by going to

"/index.php?option=com_mycomponent&view=display_results" 

[Php Rewrite Url]

This should get you the URL structure you are looking for.

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/user\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} username=([a-zA-Z0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.test.com/%1? [L

 

The url only works when you type "www.mysite.co.uk/1245ady"

 

Based on that statement, I am going to guess you are using Joomla. If so, Joomla inserts the row id in the URL string for it's SEF urls. It then retrieves and uses that to return the appropriate content for the page. Changing only this id in the url will return a different row from the database, even without changing the rest of the URL.

 

You will likely have to change a sql query to use the "username" column rather than the "U_id" column to lookup the users information for the page.

 

If you not using Joomla, what platform are you using.

[Paypal recurring payments]

I believe what you are looking for is "item_name".

 

The documentation is here