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How come some site urls do not include a file extension?

Hi there,

I was wondering how I can pass a variable to my PHP script using the following syntax:
http://example.com/script?variable=value

It seems I have to include .php after the script name or it won’t work, but YouTube for example doesn’t have the extension:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7jGchLAWE

How do I do this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Youtube doesn’t use PHP.

The way you could do this is by making a directory called script, then calling your script index.php. Then you could do:

http://example.com/script/?variable=value

Alternatively, you could use .htaccess to rewrite your URLs to remove the .php extension.