Personal URL on myspace

[djoxer]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to duplicate the same effect on my site that myspace.com has on theirs.  What they do is give each person a unique url that they can use in promotion.  However, when a user clicks, they are sent to a page that is taken from the database.

 

Here is what I mean: 

 

This is the url that I use to go directly to a person's page:  http://www.myspace.com/myuniquename

This is the real url that is brought up:  http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=123456789

 

Myspace uses ColdFusion, but Indieheaven does the same thing with PHP.  Can I do this without creating a lot of folders on my site and redirecting?

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[cooldude832]

yes, the idea is you make a special 404 page (unknow location) that would take the url explode it at that slash and then you got the username.  However this  will be a bit over generalzied because it will 404 on eveything you might want to make it more specialized like if $url is in the form on domain.com/subfolder

[djoxer]

I'm using a subfolder on a remote host.  I don't think I can do a 404 page.  I tried using a global variables file to check the url for a particular folder name, but it sent me to a 404.

 

Dan

[cooldude832]

than maybe you should stick to get vars if you don't have or are uncomfortable medaling in the .htaccess