Question

I’m putting together user pages based on the username in the URL. for example blank.com/username

I was able to get a script to get the user name:

$pageName = basename($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);

now, when you got to blank.com/username it obviously takes you to a page that doesn’t exist. how do I redirect to the page they are suppose to go to?

Answer 1

Try using .htaccess to send the requests to your desired PHP file. This is assuming your server is running Apache and supports mod_rewrite.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

index.php is the file with your $pageName = basename($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);