Folder Link (/article/123) instead of Normal Link (?p=article&id=123)

[jonoc33]

Hey guys,

Title pretty much says it.

How would I make a link of a server-side page a folder layout instead of the normal $_GET tags?

What is it's specific name? I can't really find much on google on it.

[Andy-H]

$p = htmlentities($_GET['p'], ENT_QUOTES);

 

$id = htmlentities($_GET['id'], ENT_QUOTES);

 

require_once "../" . $p . "/" . $id;

 

I think ???  Would need protection from external files too.

[jonoc33]

I didn't really mean it like that. That's really basic stuff.

 

Say I have this link: http://www.site.com/index.php?page=home

I want to make it this: http://www.site.com/home/

 

But it's like a virtual folder, the folder isn't actually on the server.

[Andy-H]

Ahh, not a clue on that one. Sry.

[jonoc33]

Anyone else know how to set this up? I searched PHP virtual directory on google and that relates to what my question is. It has something to do with modifying your .htaccess file.

[beansandsausages]

mod rewright maybe?

 

http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

[unkwntech]

The most common way of doing it is with mod-rewite which can give you:

doamin.tld/page/myvar

I wrote something up for a client that did not have access to mod-rewrite:

$pages = array('home', 'products', 'services'); //This is actually an SQL query but for the sake of example.
$parts = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$parts = preg_replace('%\/index\.php%', '', $parts);
$parts = preg_split('%/%', $parts);
foreach($parts as $part)
{
if(!(is_null($part) || strlen($part) < 1))
 {
	$uriParts[] = $part;
 }
}
if(in_array(strtolower($uriParts[0], $pages)))
{
        $sql = "SELECT title, text FROM content WHERE name='" . mysql_real_escape_string($uriParts['0']) . "' AND published='1'";
        //query....
}

 

With this the links look like domain.tld/?/home or domain.tld/index.php?/home/

[jonoc33]

It's working, but images don't work for some reason.

[unkwntech]

You have to use exact paths to images because the browser is stupid it thinks that it should look for images under doamin.tld/home/image.ext

[poleposters]

I've been curious about doing something similar for my site.

 

Are there any SEO or other advantages? Or is just to make URLs neat and tidy?

[jonoc33]

No advantages, just makes it cleaner. Although several problems emerge. Making the images direct links still doesn't work.

[unkwntech]

Which solution are you using mod-rewrite or what I posted?

[jonoc33]

mod-rewrite.

[unkwntech]

You will need to add an exception for the images folder, because now it is trying to make /images/ forward to your index

[jonoc33]

How exactly do I do that?

 

Also, for some reason my site is running incredibly slow now that i've added this to the .htaccess.

Any reason why?

[jonoc33]

Bump?

[beansandsausages]

Try using a true image path,

 

<img src="Http://www.mysite.com/images/myimage.png" />

 

sum it like that ? ???

[corbin]

Can we see your rewrite stuff?

 

lol ;p