URL Help...

amin1982 · September 27, 2007

hey guys...

i'm not sure whether this is a problem with PHP but i may as well ask..

I am currently putting together a site which is database driven. I have however used Apaches Rewrite rule to create more friendly URL's.

However this does create problems when a user types an incorrect URL.

for example;

if you visit the link:

http://www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclub/24-London

you will see that this works fine.

however if the user miss-spells the URL like this:

http://www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclub/24-Londo

then you get taken to a pretty ugly page! More importantly if the user just types in:

http://www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclub

they receive the same page.

How can I..

1. Work round the misspelling of the URL so that it goes to the page I want it to this case it will be http://www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclubs.php

2. For the www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclub I have tried creating a directory within the FTP with an index file www.omaraguestlist.co.uk/v3/londonnightclub/index.php but this hasn't solved the problem!

Any ideas/solutions?!

Thanks

rarebit · September 27, 2007

Need to see the .htaccess file, your asking a few questions!

Also this site might be useful http://forum.modrewrite.com/

amin1982 · September 27, 2007

hey,

thanks for reply.

my .htaccess code for the rewrite is

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule londonnightclub/(.*) londonnightclub.php?londonclub=$1

hope this helps

thanks,

rarebit · September 27, 2007

RewriteEngine on

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(login(/.*)?)$ londonnightclub.phtml?londonnightclub=$1 [QSA,L]

#RewriteRule ^[.*](/.*)?$ index.phtml?page=$1 [QSA,L]		#	EVERYTHING ELSE PASSED HERE
#RewriteRule ^((.*)?)$ index.phtml?page=$1 [QSA,L]		#	EVERYTHING ELSE PASSED HERE

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.phtml?page=404

I can't remember which of the everything else's is correct, but you should get the idea... Also give a basic 404...

amin1982 · September 27, 2007

hey,

thanks for that but that didn't seem to work...

I've pretty much just copied and pasted what you suggested as I'm not too sure how the rewrite works...

How can i turn the code below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule londonnightclub/(.*) londonnightclub.php?londonclub=$1

to work?

rarebit · September 27, 2007

RewriteRule ^(londonnightclub(/.*)?)$ londonnightclub.php?londonnightclub=$1 [QSA,L]

Is that better...

amin1982 · September 27, 2007

hey,

i tried that but it doesn't seem to work.

i simply get the same page of the unstyled text...

i'll keep at it!

marcus · September 27, 2007

That's a problem with your location of the stylesheet.

amin1982 · September 27, 2007

hey,

at the moment i'm giving the full location of the style sheet i.e. http://www.website.com/css/style.css.

when the error pages are shown it's only showing some data... the content is not actually there.

do you think this problem is common? as i can't seem to find a tutorial or any other similar topic

chronister · September 28, 2007

go to the mis-typed url and hit the View Source in it...

You will find that the page is missing the entire first half of the code... it starts with a <div> rather than a <html> tag.

This may help determine whats going wrong there.

amin1982 · September 28, 2007

hey,

i've moved my php tags around abit now i get a blank white screen... this might be abit cheeky but can you have a look at the code and let me know if I should add code or change something...

<?php 
require_once('includes/connect.php'); 
require_once ('includes/config.inc.php'); 
?>
<?php 

$problem = FALSE; 

if (!isset($_GET['urlName'])) {

$urlName = trim($_GET['urlName']);


$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

if ((substr($url, -1) == '/') OR (substr($url, -1) == '\\') ) {
	$url = substr ($url, 0, -1); 
}

$url .= '/nightclubs.php';

ob_end_clean(); 
header("Location: $url");
exit(); 

} else { 

if (isset($_GET['urlName'])) {

$urlName= trim($_GET['urlName']);

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE urlName= '$urlName'";

$result = mysql_query($sql, $dbc) or die('Error, query failed');

if (mysql_num_rows($result)) { // Good to go!

$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);



?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title><?php echo "{$row['pageTitle']}"; ?></title>

<meta name="description" content="<?php echo "{$row['pageDescription']}"; ?>">
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo "{$row['pageKeywords']}"; ?>.">


<!-- CSS STYLE SHEET -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styleie7.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!-- CSS STYLE SHEET -->


</head>

<body>

<!-- start wrapper -->
<div id="wrapper">
<!-- elite logo -->
<div id="header"> <a href="home.php"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" width="110" height="100" border="0" /></a>
<!-- flash banner -->
</div>
<!-- elite logo -->
<ul class="menu">
<li><a href="home.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="parties.php">Elite Parties</a></li>
<li><a href="photogallery.php">Elite Photo Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="nightclubs.php" class="current">Night Club Reviews</a></li>
<li><a href="party.php">Your Party</a></li>
<li><a href="press.php">Press</a></li>
<li><a href="restaurants.php">Restaurants</a></li>
<li><a href="rssfeeds.php">Elite RSS Feeds</a></li>
<li><a href="lifestyle.php">Elite Lifestyle</a></li>
</ul>
<br style="clear: left" />

<div id="main"><!-- start main -->

<!-- splits the page into 3 --><div id="columnsClubreviews">
<div id="inner">
<div id="leftClubreviews">
<div id="clubsList">
<span class="clubsList">
<strong>Night Club Reviews</strong>
<br>
<br>
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE active='1' ORDER BY venue_name";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');
while ($list = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<a href ='nightclub/{$list['urlName']}' >{$list['venue_name']}</a> <br>";
}
?>
</span>

</div>
<!-- end intro box -->
</div><!-- end left -->

<!-- start content -->
<div id="contentReviews">
<?php

echo "<h1 class='clubname'>{$row['venue_name']}</h1><br><br>";

echo "<div>{$row['venue_address']}</div><br><br>";

echo "<div>{$row['description']}</div><br><br>";

echo "Opening Times: {$row['openingTimes']}<br><br>";

echo "Nearest Tube: {$row['nearestTube']}<br><br>";
if ('' == $row['guestList'])
{
echo "Guest Lists: Currently Unavailable. For our current nights please <span class='text'><a href='#'>view our parties page</a></span> <br>";
}
else
{
echo "Guest Lists: <span class='text'><a href ='mailto:{$row['guestList']}'>{$row['guestList']}</a></span> <br>";
}

?>
<br />
<br />
<strong>Your Reviews of <? echo "{$row['venue_name']}" ?>:</strong>
<br>
<br>
<?php
$img_path = 'http://www.website.com/images/ratingStar.gif';
$query = "SELECT * FROM ec_reviews WHERE urlName='$urlName' AND approved='1'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Error, query failed');
while ($list = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

echo "Review by: {$list['name']}<br>";

echo "From: {$list['from']}<br>";

echo "Review: {$list['review']}<br>";

?>
Rating: <?
if ($list['rating'] > 0)
{
for ($i=0; $i<$list['rating']; $i++)
{
	echo "<img src='$img_path'> ";
}
}
//echo "Rating: {$list['rating']}<br><br>";
}
?>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>Add Your own Reviews for <? echo "{$row['venue_name']}" ?>:</strong><br />
*Please fill in all fields

<script type="text/JavaScript" src="http://www.website.com/review.js"></script>
<form action="http://www.website.com/review.php" method="post" name="review" onsubmit="MM_validateForm('name','','R','from','','R','email','','RisEmail','review','','R');return document.MM_returnValue">
<p>
<label for="name">*Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="txt" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="from">*From:</label>
<input type="text" name="from" id="from" class="txt" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="email">*Email:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="txt" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="rating">*Rating:</label>
<select name="rating" class="box2" id="test">
<option>-- select --</option>
<option value="5">Fantastic</option>
<option value="4">Good</option>
<option value="3">Average</option>
<option value="2">Disappointing</option>
<option value="1">Poor</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="comments">*Comments:</label>
<textarea name="review" cols="30" rows="4"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="hidden" name="urlName" id="urlName" value="<? echo "Review: {$row['urlName']}" ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="done" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Add Comment" class="btn" />
</p>
</form>
</div>
<!-- end content -->

<div id="rightClubreviews">
<div id="clubimages">
<ul>
<li id="t1"><img class="panelimage" src="<? echo "{$row['imageLogo']}";?>" alt="<? echo "{$row['venue_name']}";?>" width="190" height="126" /></li>
<li id="t1"><img class="panelimage" src="<? echo "{$row['image002']}";?>" alt="<? echo "{$row['venue_name']}";?>" width="190" height="126" /></li>
<li id="t1"><img class="panelimage" src="<? echo "{$row['image003']}";?>" alt="<? echo "{$row['venue_name']}";?>" width="190" height="126" /></li>
<li id="t1"><img class="panelimage" src="<? echo "{$row['image004']}";?>" alt="<? echo "{$row['venue_name']}"; 
?>
" width="190" height="126" /></li>
</ul>
</div>

</div>

<div id="googleAds">
<!-- Google -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-0002635803656328";
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = "120x600_as";
google_ad_type = "image";
google_ad_channel = "";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<!-- Google -->
</div>


</div>
<!-- end inner -->

</div><!-- end columns -->

</div><!-- end main -->

<!-- second half of page -->



<div class="clear"></div>

<?php include ("includes/footer.html"); ?>

</div><!-- end wrapper -->

</body>
<?
}
}
}
?>
</html>

thanks

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