Url enconding [PHP]

[w1ww]

How can I encode the url after the /?

I saw some sites that have strings like www.site.com/ab23434534ffg44t instead of the php file..

How to do it? Any example?

Thank you!

 

[Matthew.]

Unsure what you mean by encoded (well, im not...but i have never seen it like you describe)

But to achieve the /this/that/thisagain urls you use an apache module called "mod_rewrite".

There are some good tutorials on it that can be found by using google or http://pixel2life.com

For example: http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite

Example of usage:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]+)/?$ /index.php?category=$1 [L]

/category/photoshop

index.php?category=photoshop

 

[w1ww]

http://pt.php.net/urlencode
http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpmanual/page/function.urlencode.html

But I'm not sure how can I get it working! Thanks for your asnwer matt

 

[Jim_]

What you're probably seeing is base64 encoding. Unless you want to encode your GET values so that they can't be filtered by the user's ISP (like some proxies do), it's pointless and unnecessary. It provides absolutely no security as it is easily decoded and meant for conveying binary data as text.

http://us3.php.net/base64_encode
http://us3.php.net/base64_decode

 

[Alex.]

if your asking why there isnt a file name there, someone showed me a php script he used to achieve that effect...
it emulated the file name somehow.
ill try and find the code

 

[Crusader]

You can do that by generating random numbers and letters, assigning them to an array along with the url you want, and then saving that as a session.

You'd have to make an htaccess to make it read though.

If I can remember how I did it... it was like this (in pseudo-code):

// this would be the index file/redirector

function makeCode()
//function to generate random code

make a session with the code generated by makeCode()
make an array
assign url as a variable in the array
assign whatever else in here


// this is how to call it

read the sessions on the page
clear the sessions on the page

load the url included in the session array

It's not exactly like that but that's the general idea.

 

[RegisterRants]

If you are asking why there is no filename, it is all mod_rewrite.

Assuming that there is only one PHP file you need to send data to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) /SCRIPTTHATPARSESTHEINFORMATION.php?GET_VARIABLE=$1 [L]

 

[Matthew.]

If you are asking why there is no filename, it is all mod_rewrite.

Assuming that there is only one PHP file you need to send data to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) /SCRIPTTHATPARSESTHEINFORMATION.php?GET_VARIABLE=$1 [L]

It's like there's an echo :o

 

[RegisterRants]

Woah...didn't see your post there. I guess I'm not that special...*sob*

 

[PoorDoggie]

If you really wanna do that then use mod_rewrite as shown above, however its pretty pointless tbh, why do you want to encode the bit after the / anyway?

 

[RegisterRants]

There are some cases where transferring login info via POST is impossible...maybe that is the case.