URL Redirect

[edkellett]

Hi,

 

I would like to have a script that captures an extension after my domain URL and puts it in a variable which I can later use to redirect the page...

 

For example... if someone types

www.mydomain.com/johnsmith

and there is no such folder as 'johnsmith', instead of displaying en error page, the script takes the string johnsmith and puts it in the variable $sample so I can match it off with a number of records in the database and then redirect, for example.

 

I'm sure this exists somewhere so any help would be great...

 

Cheeeeeeers in advance

Ed Kellett

[Maq]

So what's your problem?

 

Use scandir() to get the files in a directory.

 

Use $_GET['var_name']; to get the persons name they put in the URL.

 

Use header() to redirect.

[edkellett]

Thanks for your reply...

The thing is the actual file doesn't exist...

 

A bit more info on what I am doing so that you might be able to help...

 

I am building a directory of businesses... people sign up and have a listing on the site...

so far so good...

 

but I would like to be able to give them their own URL... like myspace do (myspace.com/samplename)...

 

For example someone signs up and their name automatically generates a URL that they can put on their business cards etc...like www.directory.net/samplename

 

Do you get me?

 

So scanning for folders in the site won't do it because there won't actually be a folder... when they type in www.directory.net/samplename I need a way that php takes the string 'samplename' and scans the database to find an entry in there that matches... and if it finds a match redirects to that detail page...

 

Thanks so much for your help...

 

Ed