Tidy and Modern Web Address question

[gorgo666]

Hello everyone.  I've beenputting off joining phpfreaks for a lonnggg time but here I am, finally! 

 

But anyway.  I have a question that I've been pondering for ages, and it may be a little obvious so please don't ridicule me.

 

Most websites now-a-days seem to have completely removed file names from their addresses and navigation.  To give you an example, a lot of people may have used http://www.acme.com/about.php but now instead you only see http://www.acme.com/about/ which obviously refers to a directory.  It looks much tidier and is really Web 2.0...

 

Can someone elaborate on this?  Is it a behind the scenes CMS doing this, like Drupal or Wordpress?  Or is it simply people storing an index.php file inside that directory?

 

I look forward to any reply!  Cheers guys.

[Xurion]

Most likely it is done with a .htaccess file. This 'rewrites' URLS to be more user friendly.

[JasonLewis]

This was just a double post by the OP. Read the other one, perhaps a moderator can lock/remove this one.

[craygo]

It can also be a script which seperates the url into parts then includes a certain part of the url as a page.

 

example

You start of in www.acme.com/index.php. on that page you have a link which goes to www.acme.com/about. At the top of index.php you have something like this

<?php
$uri_split = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$tmp = array();
foreach($uri_split as $key => $val)
{
	if(!empty($val) || $val != "")
	{
		$tmp[count($tmp)] = $val;
	}
}
$uri_split = $tmp;
if(!isset($uri_split[0]))
{
	$uri_split[0] = "about_us";
}?>

 

Now you just include the page in index.php

include($uri_split[0]);

 

hope I got that right. Just grabs bits from one of my scirpt.

 

Ray