clean urls

[somaboy mx]

I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

any suggestions, links to articles etc?

thanks.

..soma

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** somaboy mx wrote/escribió (Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:08:55 +0200):

I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

any suggestions, links to articles etc?

If you don't want your webserver to parse your URLs, then you must have
real files and directories (or at least symlinks, but of course these are
quite server-specific too).

A way to do so would be creating static files from a PHP script every time
your database contents are modified.
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[Daniel Tryba]

somaboy mx <no****@fakemail.fk> wrote:

I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

You could be lucky and have the first URL working (if the second one
already works (depending on httpd configuration (Apache Multiview
IIRC))) and find 233 in _SERVER['PATH_INFO']. But that still depends on
platform. Alternatively you could build an intelligent 404 handler which
should work on all platforms supporting dynamic 404 handlers (which I
guess is most), but again platform dependend.

Most likely to work out of the box is http://www.mysite.com/products.php/233.

But I guess there is no single guaranteed multiplatform solution.

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

somaboy mx (no****@fakemail.fk) wrote:
: I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
: http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
: http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
: mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

: any suggestions, links to articles etc?

If this is apache then it works, you don't need to do anything, except get
the "products" to be known as a script.

The "unused" parts of the path will then be given to you by the
environment variable PATH_INFO

If you use the name "products.php" then it should work as-is.

http://www.mysite.com/products.php/more/stuff/goes/here

(PATH_INFO will contain "/more/stuff/goes/here")

If you really want to use "products" then you need to set something up so
force apache to recognize the script as being a php script. Normally
apache is configured to look for the ending ".php", but you can flag a
specific files for special handling, or an entire directory, by putting
the right rule in the conf file, or in the .htaccess file, though I
haven't done that for this task so I can't show you an example.
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