Shorter URLs

[jpm6917]

In your .htaccess file add:

<Files page>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php 
</Files>

Now file "page" will be a php page without the file extension ".php"

www..com/page
www..com/page.php

 

[Dan]

I don't see why you would want to do that..

That would mess up folders, too. If you linked to a folder on your site without the trailing slash it would go to the foldername.php

 

[jpm6917]

I don't see why you would want to do that..

That would mess up folders, too. If you linked to a folder on your site without the trailing slash it would go to the foldername.php

Not true, it would only go to "page" no matter what. I think you are confused. You are renaming the file to just “page” page.php does not exist anymore.


http://www.firstmortgageguide.com/articles

http://www.firstmortgageguide.com/forum

 

[Dan]

Yes, so since you don't need an extension to make it PHP, if you went to site.com/folder it would go to folder.php and not the actual folder.

Say you linked to your forums (site.com/forums) that would do forums.php which isn't what you want.

You would have to make all links go to site.com/forums/

Plus, it only gets rid of .php.. not that big of a difference.

 

[jpm6917]

Yes, so since you don't need an extension to make it PHP, if you went to site.com/folder it would go to folder.php and not the actual folder.

Understand your logic. This is just another way to make shorter URLs.

Then you can pass vars

www..com/page/var/

$var_array = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);
$your_var = $var_array[1];

Example, you can have this:

www..com/page.php?var=BLAH (Ugly!)

or you can have this:

www..com/page/BLAH/ (Clean and SEO friendly!)

 

[cashboy]

I like the script... but is there any advanced version of it,..... i mean is there any class available that more sufficiently manages it?

 

[PoorDoggie]

<Files page>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php 
</Files>

That wouldn't change EVERY file? Just page.php?

If I put "<Files search>" it would just be search.php? and not EVERY SINGLE FOLDER?

Am I right?

Thanks
Tom

 

[vincenzo]

What about using the mod_rewrite method:

Add this to the .htaccess file on the root of your server:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

That should just strip out the php extension of evry file.

- Vince