Question

I have a site with a page called users.php that accepts the URL variable “username” and returns user information based on that variable. For example, the URL users.php?username=someuser will retrieve data for the user “someuser”.
I am curious how to make an individual URl for each user, so that mysite.com/someuser redirects to users.php?username=someuser.

Can someone explain how to do this to me?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You have to edit the .htaccess file.
Take a look here

For Example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1

It will convert URLs like

site.com/user123/ or site.com/user123

to

site.com/user.php?username=user123