Elliotte Harold wrote:
Paul Houle wrote:
There's an easy way to get 'friendly' URLs in PHP. There are two
tricks involved:
(1) It seems to be a bit obscure that if you have a PHP script at
http://somewhere.com/myscript.php
the same script is called if you visit
http://somewhere.com/myscript.php/some/subdirectories.gif
http://somewhere.com/myscript.php/article/2007/07/07/hello-world
Try it!
Amazing! I did just try it and that actually works. You can use a PHP
script to replace a directory. I thought there had to be something
that easy, but I've never seen it done that way.
I think what Ken last suggested amounts to the same thing, but I
couldn't quite see how his example actually worked.
Yes, they amount to the same thing, but one has the .php extension and
one does not.
It was weird to me when pointed out at first. What the .htaccess
setting is doing is telling Apache to process an entry that looks like
'news' as a php script. Also, "entries" here means a file or a
directory segment. The key is knowing that apache parses from left to
right, not the other way around. So as soon as it finds 'news', it
passes control to that file as a php script and apache itself is now
finished.
It is indeed pretty obscure. I wonder if this is documented anywhere?
Methinks its a basic apache thing.
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