http://php.net/htaccess to learn about this in php
http://us2.php.net/reserved.variables and find info on REQUEST_URI
since you are using windows, you cant create a .htaccess file because windows wont allow a file starting with a period. so you need to edit your apache.conf file to look for a different file name than .htaccess.
now that that is ready, creat that file with the info i put in my last post. if your apache document root is c:/php/ then in the .htaccess the / will point to that.
so what the htaccess file does is turns on apache mod_rewrite, and tells it that if the file in the URI doesnt exist (eg: http://localhost/fakedirectory ), it will display your index.php for your document root. if you HAVE a directory called 'fakedirectory', it will show the index.php file for that directory. you can place an htaccess file in fakedirectory as well, and start stacking them up so it wouldnt go back to your document root.
back to using mod_rewrite...
if you have it point back to / and you go to http://localhost/fakedirectory, it will show /index.php and will set the variable $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REQUEST_URI'] to /fakedirectory. if you went to http://localhost/fakedirectory/anotherfake it would set $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REQUEST_URI'] to /fakedirectory/anotherfake, which you can then call and explode to break it at the / into seperate vars to work with.
sorry this is wordy, but i dont know how it cant be
-tim
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