Quick idiot question

[insanity381]

Uummm....Well the description of this topic kind of gave it away; how do you do that thing:index.php/something/maybesomethingelse/thanks,Simon

[Chocolate570]

Do you mean index.php?thing=1234&blah=424?If so, then just use this code.

<?php$thing=$_GET['thing'];$blah=$_GET['blah']echo $thing.$blah;?>

If you used that, you'd get 1234424. :)Hope that helps.Choco

[Little Goat]

no, he maens make a php file act like a folder such as index.php/hi/ displays something different from index.php.I've seen it too.

[DarkElf]

Not sure where the slashes come in, but I think you can do it using query strings.The query string variable is added to the url: www.mywebsite.com/index.php?page1To retrieve the variable use this:

$variable = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

The you can then use variable in your code, this could for example be the name of a file that contains the content to be displayed on the page, therefore you can use your index.php file as a template and import the content using something like this:

$content = file_get_contents($variable.'txt');echo '<p>'.$content.'</p>';

[aspnetguy]

my guess is that it would be done similairly to url re-writing using mod_rewrite form apache.using slashes AFAIK is not a standard method for passing info and would have to be setup in apache how to handle it.

[insanity381]

Naaa....Sorry, I thought this would be a simple, nice, standard thing. I know how to use GET and POST, I just wondered about this thing, like for example at:http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php/blog/archivesIf it's not a standard-compliant thing, I'm not bothered. Thanks anyway guys.

[justsomeguy]

I don't think it's necessarily against a standard, but you do have to have control over the server to set that up. I assume you mean something like this:

http://context.cx/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,48/

I assume that what is happening there is there is a file in the component directory called index.php that gets the parameters "option" with the value "com_docman", and "Itemid" with the value "48". But you do have to set up the server so that it knows not to look for a directory called that.

[DarkElf]

But you do have to set up the server so that it knows not to look for a directory called that.

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Which assumes you have that kind of control over your server (if you are renting webspace that is quite unlikely!)

[justsomeguy]

That's right, like aspnetguy said you would need to install and setup something like mod_rewrite, which you wouldn't be able to do if you don't have root access to the server.

[insanity381]

Oh okay. Thanks guys. I'm actually on www.ripway.com, so that's that.Cheers again,Simon