Permanent link to a 'virtual' file?

[Blezz]

Alright so I'm going to try to explain this as best I can..

 

Basically right now to access a specific row in a DB the url is ?id=1

The page uses the $_GET to search for the row where id=1, blah blah blah

 

But I have another script that cannot use ?id= on url, it needs to be a static url like index.php or /dir/ or index.html, if that makes sense..

So if I had a url index.php?id=1 the script only allows index.php, thus it doesn't find the right content because without the ?id it just shows all rows, not that specific one..

 

So basically I need some way to make a virtual link, for example test.com/id/1  do the same as index.php?id=1 without actually creating hundreds of dir's and pages =/

 

Any ideas? A lot of bigger websites do this but I'm not sure how so any help would be greatly appreciated

[harristweed]

Sessions?

[johnny86]

Mod_rewrite is what you are looking for.. if you are using apache.. example .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

 

Then in your PHP code you'll have to parse your request parameters from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] etc.

[Blezz]

Okay so after looking at a tutorial I came up with this as my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-]*).html /index.php?username=$1

but it is still giving me 404 =/

[Blezz]

Also added this to my apache config

 

<directory "/etc/apache2">

AllowOverride ALL

</directory>

 

Didn't  help =/

[trq]

But I have another script that cannot use ?id= on url, it needs to be a static url like index.php or /dir/ or index.html, if that makes sense..

 

Can you explain why that is the case?

[Blezz]

Okay I got the rewrite working, now my problem is $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; isn't returning anything =S

[Blezz]

Nevermind I got it all working