user profile url help

[MDanz]

How do i use GET to get the username if the url is like this

 

http://www.example.com/Username

 

or is there another method rather than GET?

[floridaflatlander]

I had to use htaccess and have a record with a field with the users name. When users register the db is searched for a simular name, if one already exist the user is given another name.

Get searches for the name in my case.

[fugix]

if you are talking about the actual text after http://www.example.com/Username,

you can use a regular expression to match the text.

$pattern = '/^http\:\/\/www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+?\.com\/([a-zA-Z-0-9]+?)/';

[MDanz]

if you are talking about the actual text after http://www.example.com/Username,

you can use a regular expression to match the text.

$pattern = '/^http\:\/\/www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+?\.com\/([a-zA-Z-0-9]+?)/';

 

so $pattern will get the Username from the url?

[fugix]

i forgot to add the function that will actually use the pattern to grab the info path_info from your url..

$pattern = '/^http\:\/\/www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+?\.com\/([a-zA-Z-0-9]+?)/';
$subject = 'http://www.example.com/Username';
preg_match($pattern,$subject,$matches);
echo $matches[0];

where $matches[0] will contain your string data

[Andy-H]

mod_rewrite

[MDanz]

ok how do i get the page to display? i get this error

 

Not Found

 

The requested URL /test was not found on this server.

 

for example the url is this

http://www.example.com/$username

[fugix]

why are you using a variable in you url? now im confused, can you explain further what you are trying to do

[MDanz]

nvm i found a solution...basically i want a "pretty" url. thanks for the help anyway