URL Question

[voxxtelum]

I am designing a site that has a referral system and I want to create a URL that the users receive once they sign up.  I want the referral link to look like www.url.com/x where x is their user id.  I know how to create a referral link using GET, but the URL would look something like www.url.com/index.php?refid=x and I want something simpler than that.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[aebstract]

www.url.com/index.php?refid=x

 

then use something like

 

echo "$_GET['refid']";

 

That will echo "x", I don't really know what you want to do with the refid but that's how you get it so that you can use it.

[voxxtelum]

Thanks for the quick response and I am sorry if I was unclear with my original question.  I know how I can retrieve variables from the URL using GET, I just don't know how to get the id from the URL when it looks like www.url.com/x.  For example if member1 signs up and his user id is 1, then I want the referral link to look like www.url.com/1.  How can I get the 1 from the URL so that I can use it to know who referred him?

 

 

[aebstract]

You mean so you know who he refers? You would still use the $_GET? If you want to know how match it up to which user that id is set as, you would have to check your database for a user with that id.

[laffin]

U have to check if yer server supports PATH_INFO, if not ya may have to edit .htaccess to make a ReWrite Rule

[atlanta]

You need to google .htaccess mod_rewrite rule

to do that heres an example

 

Add that line to .htaccess with your values in the page.php part

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule  ^([0-9]+) /page.php?member=$1 [L]

[voxxtelum]

Thanks to all that replied so soon.  I am unable to try the rewrite rule now but I will later tonight and post back if I have a problem.  I am hosting with bluehost and I'm pretty sure that mod_rewrite is supported.