Question

I am making a small social network and was wondering how can I make facebook style profile urls. For example:

My current url styling: http://www.website.com/user.php?id=username

Facebook style url that I want: http://www.website.com/username

I was wondering if this can be created with php? It would be easier to remember.

Answer 1

Look into .htaccess

RewriteRule ^profile/([^\.]+)$ profile.php?user=$1 [QSA,L]

Would let you goto example.com/profile/username?1=1&2=2&3=3, ect

Resources:

http://www.htaccess-guide.com/

http://www.htaccessbasics.com/

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htaccess