Hello again,
This is a pretty good idea ...
Once they click the link that brings them to the page, they only stay for
one action (to RSVP to an event)
so I don't care what the URL looks like once they are on the page ... its
getting to the page I want to make
easier ... as in /eventMay VS /eventid=sweet_md5hash ... hopefully this will
be less prone to error and users
will notice when something is spelled wrong in the URL .. vs's the hash ...
To be honest .. I dont see how users keep messing this up ... all they have
to do is a click a link to bring them
to the page... but they manage to fudge it at least once a day (error logs
mailed to myself)
Well, I'll think about it all a bit more before I implement anything .. but
I like the proxy idea, i can leave my current
db as is for the RSVP page (minus the lookup for eventMay and the new table
to map eventid to names).
Thanks,
- Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "csnyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk@lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Howto create custom URLs
On 3/19/07, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently I have a software package that creates URLS in this manner:
myhost.com/index.php?act=700&eventid=4e732ced3463d06de0ca9a15b6153677
Now, I want to make this a bit more user friendly and create URLs like:
myhost.com/MayEvent07
I'm not sure if I will have the ability to run apache
mods (if that's the answer).
The correct approach to this, in my opinion, is to create an
application proxy -- a script that will parse incoming request for uri
MayEvent07, convert it into $_GET['eventid'] = 4e...7 using a db
lookup, and then include() the software package's index.php, using an
output buffer so that the urls in the software package's response can
all be converted back to your friendly format.
In other words, build a php wrapper around your software package. Done
right, it won't know the difference, and you don't have to muck around
with httpd.conf.
--
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/
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