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[Kenneth Downs]

Dell Sala wrote:
> mod_rewrite seems like a messy business. How about naming your php 
> script without a .php extension and just have that be parsed with php? 
> Then, whatever path is appending to the script name that is requested 
> just acts as a query string/argument.
>
> your php script would be
>
> http://domain.com/mp3handler
>
> and full requests would look like this
>
> http://domain.com/mp3handler/music.mp3
>
> mp3handler would just parse the full request string to find out what 
> mp3 was requested
>
> your .htaccess file would be something like this:
>
> <FilesMatch "^mp3hanlder$">
>    ForceType application/x-httpd-php
> </FilesMatch>
>
> I've found this to be an effective technique for creating clean urls.

This looks interesting, can you give me some details here:

1)  The intent is to redirect to music.mp3, which is actually a php 
script, right?
2)  But then the rule is on "mp3handler", which is constant so it can't 
be a parameter?
3)  So what is the parameter?  How do I tell a single script to handle 
multiple files?

What I'm aiming at is to have a single script that takes a parm.  If I 
understand your example above, it requires a separate script for each 
possible mp3 file, which may as well just be this:

<FilesMatch "\.mp3$">
   ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

...which requires me again to have one script per mp3.

Am I missing something?

>
> -- Dell
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Kenneth Downs wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing that this must be a common trick, but googling it did 
>> not come up with an example that I could figure out.
>>
>> Basically I'd like to put a link to what looks like an MP3 file, but 
>> which is redirected to a script.  The script determines if the person 
>> is subscribed to that particular issue. If they are, it does a 
>> readfile(), otherwise it does not.
>>
>> I cannot do a simple force of mp3 files to be handled by PHP, or at 
>> least I don't want to, because then I would need a file for every 
>> mp3, and as the list comes out of a database, this would be troublesome.
>>
>> The basic problem I have is, not being familiar with mod_rewrite, I 
>> find myself in the endless maze that everybody warns you about, 
>> fiddling around and smashing fists on the table wondering why the 
>> simplest !)(#(*#@ expression won't work.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is for a URL like this:
>>
>> http://www.example.com/path/path/somefile.mp3
>>
>> to become:
>>
>> http://www.example.com/path/path/index.php?gp_page=media&file=somefile.mp3 
>>
>>
>> Can anybody give me a clue here?  Thanks.
>> <ken.vcf>
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