URL rewriting

[Ricky Romaya]

Can I have somekind of URL rewriting mechanism without touching the web
server's configuration (implemented in pure PHP) and win32 compatible? All
the info I have teaches about apache's mod_rewrite or other methods which
includes httpd.conf/htaccess editing. Assume I don't have any access to
both files.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Ricky Romaya wrote:

Can I have somekind of URL rewriting mechanism without touching the web server's configuration (implemented in pure PHP) and win32 compatible? All the info I have teaches about apache's mod_rewrite or other methods which includes httpd.conf/htaccess editing. Assume I don't have any access to both files.

Explain what you want to achieve, like "from" and "to" URLs?

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[Ricky Romaya]

"R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah" <ng**********@rediffmail.com> wrote in
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Explain what you want to achieve, like "from" and "to" URLs?

Well, at least the same basic functionality of Apache's mod_rewrite. For
example, this URL:

http://www.foobar.com/en/my-index/

will be translated to

http://www.foobar.com/index.php?lang=en&page=my-index

before the webserver finally calls index.php with 'lang' and 'page'
arguments.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Ricky Romaya wrote:

"R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah" <ng**********@rediffmail.com> wrote in
news:11**********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com:

Explain what you want to achieve, like "from" and "to" URLs?
Well, at least the same basic functionality of Apache's mod_rewrite.

For example, this URL:

http://www.foobar.com/en/my-index/

will be translated to

http://www.foobar.com/index.php?lang=en&page=my-index

before the webserver finally calls index.php with 'lang' and 'page'
arguments.

I don't think, this case will be possible then. But, will be happy
if someone proves the other.

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[NC]

Ricky Romaya wrote:

Can I have somekind of URL rewriting mechanism without
touching the web server's configuration (implemented
in pure PHP) and win32 compatible?
Not really... URL rewriting is a pretty low-level HTTP
server functionality... This said, there may be ways
to make your URLs shorter and prettier...
For example, this URL:

http://www.foobar.com/en/my-index/

will be translated to

http://www.foobar.com/index.php?lang=en&page=my-index

before the webserver finally calls index.php with
'lang' and 'page' arguments.

Again, URL rewriting is out of question, so what I am about
to suggest is more like alternative ways of communicating
values without communicating names.

There is a hack (which I really don't recommend because I am
not sure this Apache behavior is intended)... Call your home
page like this:

http://www.foobar.com/index.php/en/my-index/

This should set your $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to "/en/my-index/",
which you can then parse like this:

$vars = explode('/', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$lang = $vars[1];
$page = $vars[2];

There is another hack, more standards-friendly:

http://www.foobar.com/?en/my-index/

This should set your $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to "en/my-index/"
which you can parse like this:

$vars = explode('/', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
$lang = $vars[0];
$page = $vars[1];

Cheers,
NC