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[Stefan Klopp]

Hello All,

I wanted to get your feedback on the best (and
securest) way to do friendly URL's. I currently have
implemented a simple one that basically appends
directories onto the end of the php file, for example:

http://www.example.com/script.php/variable1/variable2/

To get the variables I am splitting on / in the
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. This appears to work quite well
for me. However the only problem I am facing now is
when my page has included header information such as
CSS or javascript. Since the includes are not full URL
they try to find the files in:

http://www.example.com/script.php/variable1/variable2/

instead of in:

http://www.example.com/

Now I know I can do this via mod_rewrite but I would
rather keep it all in the php. So one way I found
around this was to put:

        $path = preg_split("/\//",
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
        $file = array_pop($path);
        if (preg_match("/\.(js)$/", $file)) {
            include($file);
            exit;
        }
        if (preg_match("/\.(jpg|gif|png|css)$/",
$file)) {
            $extra_path = array_pop($path);
            include($extra_path . "/" .$file);
            exit;
        }

Basically this just checks if the last block on the
url is a file. If it is and is javascript simple
include the file directly (from the current working
dir). If it is a image or css file get the extra
directory information then include the file. 

Now again this works for my current app, however I
very much fear doing a dynamic include. Can anyone
think of a better way to handle this?

Thanks,

Stefan




		
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