[SOLVED] suppress url

[gwolff2005]

How can I suppress part of the url, so if the complete address is www.guntmarwolff.com/intro.php that it just shows www.guntmarwolff.com

 

Thanks!!!

[rhodesa]

echo parse_url('http://www.guntmarwolff.com/intro.php', PHP_URL_HOST);

edit: the http:// has to be in the URL though

[ignace]

You need to use a .htaccess and have mod_rewrite enabled on your server

[gwolff2005]

@rhodesa. When I do that what you said

<?php session_start();
echo parse_url('http://www.guntmarwolff.com/thepassiontest.php', PHP_URL_HOST);
?>

 

and I get this error message:

 

Warning: parse_url() expects exactly 1 parameter, 2 given

[rhodesa]

ah...the second parameter was added in PHP 5.1.2...use:

$parts = parse_url('http://www.guntmarwolff.com/thepassiontest.php');
echo $parts['host'];

[gwolff2005]

Hi. I did that. but now it shows me at the bottom of my page the hosturl. But what I need is that instead of showing in the address bar the path like www.guntmarwolff.com/passiontest.php that it just shows www.guntmarwolff.com.

[rhodesa]

AH...in that case...you will probably need an htaccess file. But I'm confused...you used intro.php before and not you use passiontest.php, which is it?

[Ken2k7]

I'm no expert on .htaccess, but this is how I would do it. Haven't tested.

 

.htaccess

DirectoryIndex intro.php
IndexIgnore *
Redirect 301 intro.php http://www.domain.com/

[gwolff2005]

I need this for several pages. But lets stay with thepassiontest.php for now.

I dont want to redirect. The user should see the content of thepassiontest.php. But I dont want him to see the actual path in the address bar, but just the main domain www.guntmarwolff.com

[rhodesa]

ok...i had a feeling you meant this.

 

before the solution, i would like to encourage you to avoid this. not only is it bad for search engine optimization, but it prevents users from being able to bookmark pages.

 

now, if you STILL want to do it...you need to have the main page be an iframe wrapper. not sure how this would fit into your current structure...but your site index page (usually index.html) needs to be something like:

I went to write an example and noticed you already did a frameset on the page (same concept as the iframe).

 

p.s. - I would be curious to hear why you need this

[gwolff2005]

hi thanks for your reply. the sites which the user visits are behind a login area. so I dont wanna him try to have access to these pages when he did not log in... as well. there is a psychologigal test running on these sites which the user wants to do. so after doing him I dont wanna him to try to do it again just by bookmarking and visiting again...

[rhodesa]

k, well, instead of trying to hide the url, you should fix the pages so it checks to see if they are logged in, and if they aren't, forward them to the login page

[gwolff2005]

ok good idea. Thanks!!!