On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:24 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should > have there own profile page with a static URL like- > > http://www.abcnetwork/user/username > > Where username will be dynamic userid or something else. > > This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail (this > is my profile page). > > So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what > kind of methodology youtube is following? > > Thanks in Advance. > > Gaurav Kumar > OSWebstudio.com
If you're working on an Apache server, your best bet is to look at mod_rewrite. You can write a simple rule to match against these sorts of URL formats, so that to your visitors it appears as if the actual path exists, but internally it can get translated to something like http://www.abcnetwork.com/profile.php?id=username Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
