hi i need to parse an URL with the next values: http://www.something.com/section/subsection/.../page.html translating this URL: section and subsection and ... are variables referred as ID's is a MySQL database. by getting the 'page' in 'page.html' i know what i am looking for in the same database. What i need is parsing all variables between the '/' and the laste variable with '.html' What is this for: i want the user to know where he is on my site. I think that by using the common system (likehttp://www.something.com?sid=34&subid=5&p=2 ) the user would have difficulties to read. You have an example in www.freshmeat.net. I know that this system must use a DefaultHandler (DHandler i guess) in Apache server where it parses and checks the url to not result in the ERROR 404 code. Is this possible in PHP? How can i do it? is there any script out there where i could download it? Tanx anyway ! Sergio