I discovered this wonderful article at zend discussing how to pass get parameters as mock directory names . . . ie www.ica.bc.ca/kb.php3?artid=34&catid=23 would become www.ica.bc.ca/kb.php3/artid/34/catid/23. Then you retrieve these values from the $PATH_INFO variable.
I tried it out on my site by deleting the get parameters and typing the mock directories in on the url. Very cool, my website is still being displayed even with the fake directories. BUT, I noticed that the server was not finding my css page or my images. And when I click on one of the links on the webpage, they get added to the end of my list of fake directories, ie: www.ica.bc.ca/kb.php3/artid/34/catid/23/kb.php3?catid=56&artid=23 I also noticed that the server was finding the PHP include files. Does this mean that I need to use absolute links for anything that is being located after PHP is done with the page? I guess the server is looking for the css page and the images relative to the fake directory. Am I missing something here? Has anybody tried this out? Is there any way around using absolute links? I briefly thought of using my config file to create a variable for the absolute link, ie $abs_link="http://www.ica.bc.ca/"; and then adding the relative link to it. But my content is all stored in a database with lots of embedded html. I would then end up with embedded php in my database and would need to use eval (or something??) to execute that php. Very messy and slow I presume. I guess I could always use a search and destroy program to change the absolute links when necessary. Sorry I'm starting to babble here I'd better leave now! . . . Just one more thing though, I really love the zend articles. They've really clarified a lot of things, and introduced stuff I'd never thought of before. They have a whole section of articles, tutorials, columns, etc here: http://www.zend.com/zend/art/ Thanks, Rita. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
