Question

The standard GET query as a link for each user is easy but ugly for the users and search engines.

// This looks UGLY
website.com/index.php?userid=43232

//This is what I want
website.com/coolUser

How to make a custom link for every user without creating folders all the time?

Answer 1

Simple way to make URL like that, using .htaccess (create .htaccess file and upload to your public_html / wwwdir)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/?$ index.php?userid=$1 [L]

Now, you can access http://yoursite.com/43232 OR http://yoursite.com/index.php?userid=43232