RE: [PHP] intercepting URLs in a "control-system"

Alan Lord <mailto:lord_alan@hotmail.com>
on Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:40 PM said:

> Having read quite a bit on-line, I am interested in trying to "trap"
> URLs sent to my site so I can process the request and respond without
> neccessarily having a "real" page to serve. If this makes any sense,
> how do I do it?

Yes. Like another poster suggested you'll want to use mod_rewrite. You
can turn urls such as www.abc.com/cars/volvo/X70.html into
www.abc.com/cars.php?make=volvo&model=X70

> Because I expect that apache (in my case) would not
> like a URL that contains extra directories/files and would reject it.

Yes, it's called a 404.


HTH,
Chris.


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