sdlyr8 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Hey, I've always wondered how its done. How does a page like www.domain.com/username know which user's profile to load? I know about GETs and POSTs, but how does one make a script like that? Basically the same deal with on wikipedia's site. Let me know if i'm not making any sense.. thanks! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/163563-wiki-like-url-get-variables-from-url/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 If it just has http://domain.com/username besides using PHP to get the variable they're most likely using mod-rewrite to modify the URL. A normal url would look like http:/www.domain.com/somefile.php?variablename=value . Then in PHP to get that varaible you'd do: $variable = $_GET['variablename']; So in your example, www.domain.com/username, mod rewrite would be used and basically change the way the server sees that URL, most likely 'hiding' something like username=, allowing www.domain.com/?username=username to just be domain.com/username Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/163563-wiki-like-url-get-variables-from-url/#findComment-862969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
celsoendo Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Just to remember that mod_rewrite is not a php module. It's an Apache module: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/163563-wiki-like-url-get-variables-from-url/#findComment-863057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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