I want to have the URL http://something.com/somestring where the somestring is picked up by the php $_GET, instead of having to write http://something.com/index.php?var=somestring and inside php using $_GET["var"].
How do I do it?
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If you are running on Apache, you can use mod_rewrite. Other servers have different methods, but the general term us 'URL rewriting' to describe this functionality.
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ITroubs
For IIS there is ISAPI_REWRITE what is nearly the same as mod_rewrite but it isn't free
daihovey
so does that then change the URL so php can understand what to $_GET?
mdm
Well, yes, but there is some configuration required. It kind of does an 'internal' redirect, so your page is called as index.php?face=palm, but the user accesses it via /palm. It can be as simple or as complex as you like, and work based on simple criteria or regular expressions.
Your question has already been answered. But to give you the common example for your case:
RewriteEngine
RewriteCond ./%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule ^(\w+)$ index.php?var=$1 [L]
The first cond prevents the rule from rewriting requests to real files. The second takes any alphanumeric string and appends it as GET parameter to your script.
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You can use .htaccess and mod_rewrite to do this, assuming you are using apache as webserver -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
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Another option would be using the $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
http://something.com/index.php?=somestring
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] would return "somestring"
