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Asked: 2026-05-27T07:40:45+00:00

I am building a PHP application. For my application, user’s profiles / pages are

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I am building a PHP application. For my application, user’s profiles / pages are setup and displayed intially by visiting domain.com/username or domain.com/accountnumber.

My question is this – how do you do that, while retaining the ability to make informative application pages that have the url of domain.com/pagename? My main example of this is vimeo, which has vimeo.com/about, vimeo.com/developers, etc., while allowing you to set your username to vimeo.com/username. My concern is that I will launch my application and not have the ability to create the link I want to in the future because it is taken as a username.

What would be your advice, or what has been your experience? Is there a common list to reserve that is recommended? I am not sure what to do. Thanks for the help.
 

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are a number of ways you can achieve what you asking – read up on routes and routing to gain a better understanding.

    Many frameworks offer a way in achieving what you are asking – Zend Framework being one.

    Alterantivly, if you are building it from scratch you could implement a different structure i.e.

    domain.com/u/joebloggs  
domain.com/user/joebloggs  
domain.com/a/123456  
domain.com/account/123456

    This effectivly ensures your urls cannot be affected by someone username. You’ll need to look into Mod Rewrite if using creating your own routes.

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