dynamic pages without using $_GET?

[tomwans]

how do websites such as last.fm have dynamic pages when they dont use
the standard $_GET url? for example, a dynamic page is generated from
last.fm/users/drpolish, which looks alot cleaner than something like
last.fm/users?username=drpolish

just put me in the right direction,
tom

[Michael Fesser]

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>how do websites such as last.fm have dynamic pages when they dont use
the standard $_GET url? for example, a dynamic page is generated from
last.fm/users/drpolish, which looks alot cleaner than something like
last.fm/users?username=drpolish

just put me in the right direction,

There are many different ways to achieve that. For example you can use a
single script to parse the URL and handle all incoming requests (usually
called a "front controller"), another very common way is to use Apache's
mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL before passing it to the PHP interpreter.

Micha

[tomwans]

On Jun 17, 1:44 pm, Michael Fesser <[e-mail]:

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how do websites such as last.fm have dynamic pages when they dont use
the standard $_GET url? for example, a dynamic page is generated from
last.fm/users/drpolish, which looks alot cleaner than something like
last.fm/users?username=drpolish

just put me in the right direction,

There are many different ways to achieve that. For example you can use a
single script to parse the URL and handle all incoming requests (usually
called a "front controller"), another very common way is to use Apache's
mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL before passing it to the PHP interpreter.

Micha

wow thanks dude