Willem_ZA

Hey guys! I'm working on a Link Directory / Shortlink Generator / Tagging / Rating / Comment site over at [a href=\"http://finder.leto.za.net/\" target=\"_blank\"]http://finder.leto.za.net/[/a]. Have a look, see if you like it. If you register (which is free), you will be able to add comments and rate pages, and the site will also provide you with a RSS feed of your favourites, ready for inclusion on your Firefox Live Bookmarks toolbar. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? At the moment the site is still in testing, and I'd like to change some of the graphics (especially the buttons). Any other critique? Thanks :) Willem

Hey guys My problem is this: I want a user to enter the following kind of URL: [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/aa21\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/aa21[/a] or [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/sdw21\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/sdw21[/a] or [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/09kks\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/09kks[/a] or anything similar (the part after the last slash references a record in my database. I need the user to then be redirected to the following URL: [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=aa21\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=aa21[/a] or [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=sdw21\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=sdw21[/a] or [a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=09kks\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php?id=09kks[/a] or whatever, depending on the original URL they entered. This is the contents of my .htaccess file (it's only 1 line long): RedirectMatch temp ^/find/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /finder/test.php?id=$1 What happens is that when a user enters "http://www.mydomain.com/aa21", he gets redirected to "http://www.mydomain.com/catch.php%3fid=aa21" Why is the question mark at the end of the intended URL changing into "%3f"? Thanks! Willem

[!--quoteo(post=379626:date=Jun 3 2006, 04:23 PM:name=poirot)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(poirot @ Jun 3 2006, 04:23 PM) [snapback]379626[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] Ken, I think he doesn't want custom error pages. And besides, these are defined by .htaccess as well. He wants to redirect the users to a certain script... An advice though: Don't use this if you are going to have a BIG amount of pages: you would have to create redirects for each one of them. Instead, give the users a link like this: catch.php?c=aa12 or catch.php?c=de12 Then you can retrieve it using $_GET['c'] [/quote] No, I don't think it's custom error pages either. I don't want to use the GET or POST methods, I want it to look like it is an actual page. However, there will be many of these 'aa12' or 'de12' variants, the code refers to a specific record in a database. In other words, when a user goes to "http://www.mypage.com/aa12", I want the "aa12" value to be sent to "catch.php", then catch.php will display the related record for aa12. When a user goes to "http://www.mypage.com/dcee1", I want the "dcee1" value to be sent to "catch.php", then catch.php will display the related record for dcee1. When a user goes to "http://www.mypage.com/ea7", I want the "ea7" value to be sent to "catch.php", then catch.php will display the related record for ea7. For an example of what I want to do, look at "http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/photo". There is no actual page, there, the Flickr server accepts the "photo" value at the end, and displays a page containing all the images (records) with a "photo" tag. If I go to "http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/house", it displays all images (records) with a "house" tag. And, if I go to "http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/houseaaaaaaa", it displays a page notifying me that there is no such record. W

Hey guys I'm not sure if this is exactly a PHP question, maybe more on the web server side? Anyway, I'm trying to write a program that will accept the address to a fictional page, and pass that address to PHP as a variable. Explanation: 1. User visits "http://www.somepage.com/aa12/" or "http://www.somepage.com/de12/" (these pages don't really exist on the server) 2. User gets redirected to "http://www.somepage.com/catch.php", and "aa12" or "de12" or whatever page he tried to visit, is passed to catch.php as a variable. In other words, I want to have a variable inside catch.php that will tell me what page the user tried to visit. Thanks! Willem