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Mon Mar 26 18:58:58 EDT 2007

Hello yall, 

I decided to just do the wrapper because it was quick and painless...

Here's a snippet from the new event.php file.

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/* This is our wannabe mod_rewrite hack
   The REQUEST_URI comes in as /pc_release/event.php/myEvent
   we only want the myEvent value.
*/
$eventNameStr = strrchr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/");
$eventNameStr = substr($eventNameStr, 1, strlen($eventNameStr));

DBAS_InitDBHandle(HHCE_SQLInfo( ), 'HHCE.php', $db);

$tName = constEventLookupStr;
$sqlStr = "SELECT event_id FROM $tName WHERE event_name = '$eventNameStr'";
DBAS_MySQLReturnOne($eventSet, $sqlStr, $db);
$eventId = $eventSet['event_id'];

$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . "/pc_release/index.php?act=700&eventid="
      . $eventId; 

/* REDIRECT */
header("Location: http://$host");

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/event.php/MyEvent =(redirects to)> /index.php?act=....

Works fine and I only had to make minimal changes to my existing code.

Thanks for all the great ideas everyone!

- Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jiju Thomas Mathew 
  To: NYPHP Talk 
  Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 1:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Howto create custom URLs

    regex replace, right? What about urls that are constructed
    dynamically in javascript? And I feel there must be other holes. Is 
    there a way this can be done reliably, or am I just being paranoid?

  Actually you would either redesign the package, such that you wont mess up with 
  htaccess, mod_rewrite or any such sort of plugs, or use some kind of internal plugs 
  which will always be a headache.

  I was involved in a project where the web server was really a modest one with 
  256MB ram and a pIII 800 processor yet, had a very huge database, but the basic
  thing is that the data seldom changes, ie, there may be additions, but modifications 
  are not that frequent.  

  We had the folowing htaccess

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^projects/(.*)\.html projects.php?g=$1 [L]

  we also had a projects folder which was writable by the webserver process. now 
  the php script would get the $_GET['g'], which could be parsed to identify which
  section of the projects was being referred to, and the database content would be
  merged with the static and layout template, and finally the whole html page is built 
  into one single varaible, which is written to 'projects/' . $_GET['g'] . '.html', as well
  as echoed.  So in a second request, the file will be fetched from the file system.

  Whenever the content in a particular section is modified, we just unlink the related 
  html file, which will get generated in the first subsequent request.

  The point which I wanted to emphasise is that you should consider redoing the whole
  package with the furl in mind, and you will start seeing that you will no longer require 
  any plugs.

  -- 
  Jiju Thomas Mathew
  http://www.php-trivandrum.org

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