mod-rewrite for url?

[ohdang888]

Let's say there is a user name of "Bobby" and his user id was "12345"

 

so most of my page urls are like this...

http://www.mydomain.com/user/profile.php?id=12345

 

but how do i create something like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/user/Bobby

 

Like, where it goes to the folder "user", but then doesn't look for the file/folder named "bobby"

 

I've heard a mod-rewrite does this, but how do i do that?

 

Thanks!

[corbin]

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+) /user/profile.php?name=$1

 

 

Then, in profile.php you would have to convert the name to id or what ever.

[ohdang888]

thanks...

 

where do i put that code?

[trq]

In your .htaccess file.