Isn't this what mod_rewrite is for?
Also, what we do is have urls like:
http://dealnews.com/articles/23930.html
We use a force type on the feil articles to make it get parsed as PHP. We
then read $PATH_INFO in which is /23930.html to set up our vars.
You could have:
http://florists.ftd.com/florists/rosebowlfloral/
Although it makes for a longer URL, it does not require all the files you
talked about and does not require any C.
Brian Moon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen van Egmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding URI
Translation Handlers]
> Back when the mailing lists were down, I started a discussion about
> adding a feature to PHP to do URI translating.
>
> The brief definition of URI translation is that you get to rewrite URIs
> dynamically. This is how you you would host, for instance, 10,000
> florist home pages:
>
> http://florists.ftd.com/rosebowlfloral/
> and http://florists.ftd.com/fiveflower/
>
> without having 10,000 directoriies under the server root. In Apache,
> these would be rewritten to a directory containing the style of page
> the florist chose, with some extra apache notes to tell you which
> florist page had been visited.
>
> The question I wanted to raise was how to do this. And although it
> looks like initially a simple task, it generalizes to a few other
> concepts which Apache + mod_perl has done wonders with.
>
> This was the most recent post on the topic, and I wondered if there
> were other thoughts out there?
>
> Failing that, I will probably pursue the approach of building this into
> the Apache SAPI and letting other web servers follow suit.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:34:00 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Emiliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding URI Translation Handlers
>
> Stephen van Egmond wrote:
>
> > One thing which I am bumping into is the need to do URI rewriting, kind
> > of like what mod_perl does.
> >
> > I would like to implement this myself in mod_php, and I'm looking for
> > some advice on the implementation. I considered the following:
> >
> > a) Allowing the automatically prepended file (see php's
> > auto_prepend_file config option) to change $ENV['REQUEST_URI'] before
> > the script is actually executed. This, intuitively, seems clean, but
> > would probably happen too late in the request process (it will have
> > already decided to call the error file).
>
> Yep. This would be executed in the response phase, but apache itself
> would have decided in the translation phase way before that not to
> handle the request.
>
> > b) adding a new config directive that... what? defines a file to be
> > read which is supposed to define a function? Is eval'ed?
>
> The way I see it you have a couple of options:
>
> - Use mod_perl, mod_python, mod_tcl(I think) to script a translation
> handler.
> - Write a translation handler in C (we do this with Midgard)
> - Extend mod_php4 to do what mod_perl et al do so you can write
> handlers in PHP. Conceptually, this is not too hard, but will
> definately be more work than the other two. You set up the zend
> engine just like the response phase handler does, set a few relevant
> variables before you start it (like $ENV['REQUEST_URI'] for example,
> kick off the script (either be just executing the code, or calling a
> function therein), then read the relevant variables after the script
> exits and act on them. You'll be doing this in C.
>
> Emile
>
>
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