Question

If you are writing a typical php script it lives in the directory you point the url to. An API responds to requests to directories down the tree like /api/feeds/80320. I assume the php code exists in the api directory and it reads that it got a request from /feeds/80320. How does it?

Answer 1

Redirect ALL your requests to one php script.

In apache you can do that like this >

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L]

Then in PHP script parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; and do your magic.