Page browsing without using $_GET?

[ruddie]

When I came onto this website, I just noticed that browser pages is basically done by adding: /forums and /tutorials and such, while I am now using $_GET['page'] which simply adds ?page="location" to my url.

 

I was wondering how they actually did this (since it is PHP code I can not just open check the code).

[AbraCadaver]

Apache mod_rewrite most likely.  It takes requested links such as:

/forums/php-coding-help/something-descriptive

 

And rewrites them to something like:

/forums.php?forum=12&topic=2227898

[Coolkat]

in a .htaccess file put:

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ ./index.php?page=$1 
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?$ ./index.php?page=$1

 

This will turn

 

example.com/somepage and example.com/somepage/  into  example.com?page=somepage  but the user will never see the variable is named page.. you would still use $_GET['page'] to access the value of the variable.

 

to better understand how to make this work look up some regex rules.

[Maq]

mod_rewrite actually has its own section, I'll move your thread there.