adding a .php page on sign up

[Jessica]

"Are you sure there's no simple way to redirect www.mysite.com/username to www.mysite.com/userpage.php?id=$userid"

mod_rewrite IS the simple way. That's exactly what it's for!

 

[Balmung-San]

As jesirose said, mod_rewrite is the simplest way. However, if you can't access mod_rewrite (like me, my webhost doesn't allow mod_rewrite for some stupid reason) setup a custom error page (let's call it 404.php) with this:

 

<?php
$req = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$reqarr = explode('/', $req);
header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/userpage.php?id=".$reqarr[1]);
?>

 

That should do exactly what you need it to. So when somebody access http://www.mysite.com/username it'll transfer to http://www.mysite.com/userpage.php?id=username

[almightyegg]

well...I've gone back to writing a new page...I've got this:

$directory = mkdir("/home/koggdesi/public_html/$user[username]", 0777);
$file = fopen("$user[username]/index.php","w") or die("Cannot open file!");
$stringData = "header( 'Location: http://www.koggdesigns.co.uk/users/main.php?id=$userid' ) or die("Cannot DO!"));";
fwrite($file, $stringData);
fclose($file);

 

yet I get an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/koggdesi/public_html/activate.php on line 30

 

Line 30 is the $stringData = blah line

[Balmung-San]

$stringData = "header( 'Location: http://www.koggdesigns.co.uk/users/main.php?id=$userid' ) or die("Cannot DO!"));";

 

It's your die statement, as the syntax highlight shows.

 

$stringData = "header( 'Location: http://www.koggdesigns.co.uk/users/main.php?id=$userid' ) or die('Cannot DO!'));";

 

That should do it.

[almightyegg]

Thanks I'd also added one extra bracket and left out the <? ?> to write in

 

It now works!!!!!!!  BUT next problem is that if somebody has a space in their username their directory comes out funny when you type it in any ideas how to add a - or _ or some symbol inbetween each word?

[Balmung-San]

Hmm...don't allow them to register with spaces in their username?

 

Other then that, you might want to do a preg_replace(" ","_",$user[username]) to add them in. Then preg_replace("_"," ",$whatever) to remove them again.

 

Though this in itself would eliminate the ability for a user to have the same name with an underscore where the space is, and vice versa. This is assuming all usernames with a "_" are the same as all usernames with a " ". However, if you used some oddball character, you should be good.

 

There's also urlencode() and urlencode(). Look them up, as they'll allow you to not have to use replacements.

[alpine]

Use str_replace() instead of preg_replace()  if you don't need fancy replacing rules

<?php

$username = str_replace(" ", "_", $username);

?>

[Balmung-San]

Use str_replace() instead of preg_replace()  if you don't need fancy replacing rules

 

Yeah, that there.

 

I forgot about str_replace, and I wanted to reply quickly. x.x