Vanity Url for User Profiles?

[Modernvox]

Hi Guyz,

 

Is it possible to add user profiles to a sites url as facebook and myspace and similar sites do using php?

If so, is there any good tutorials out there for this. I googled , but hundreds of facebook stories come up.

 

Thanks in Advance

[Modernvox]

How would i go about creating a profile page for each user?

[premiso]

Perhaps this will help you get your head around the idea of how to do it:

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,286115.msg1356963.html#msg1356963

[Modernvox]

Perhaps this will help you get your head around the idea of how to do it:

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,286115.msg1356963.html#msg1356963

 

Thanks Presimo looks promising

[laffin]

That does show a profile page, but the url would look like

http://my.domain.com/view.php?id=1

 

but I dont see it as a vanity url as the topic title suggests.

I think a vanity url would look like this:

http://my.domain.com/profile/Username

 

which u can accomplish with a script like premiso shows to display a profile page, but instead of the id, u will be using the username.

with that accomplished, you will need Apache ModRewrite in order to take the vanity url and process it into a script url

 

if you modify the view php to handle username lookups instead of id lookups

http://my.domain.com/view.php?username=Test1

 

you can use mod-rewrite to use a url like above with .htaccess like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/\.]+)$ view.php?username=$1 [L]

 

 

[Modernvox]

That does show a profile page, but the url would look like

http://my.domain.com/view.php?id=1

 

but I dont see it as a vanity url as the topic title suggests.

I think a vanity url would look like this:

http://my.domain.com/profile/Username

 

which u can accomplish with a script like premiso shows to display a profile page, but instead of the id, u will be using the username.

with that accomplished, you will need Apache ModRewrite in order to take the vanity url and process it into a script url

 

if you modify the view php to handle username lookups instead of id lookups

http://my.domain.com/view.php?username=Test1

 

you can use mod-rewrite to use a url like above with .htaccess like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/\.]+)$ view.php?username=$1 [L]

 

Ok will read up on this and repost when I get somewhere, Thanks guyz!