How to give personal user url on a dating website just like MySpace does?

Hello everyone,

I had posted a question regarding how to design high traffic fast
dating website on different PHP groups. I got a lot of useful
responses. I have added links to all the posts below for reference.

I am back with another question regarding the dating website. How do I
go about creating personal user url on the site like it is done on
MySpace.com

The personal URL for user1 will look like www.myWebSite.com/user1 (do
not click on the link... its the url format I am refering to.. not to
this site)

The first solution I know is to create a folder for each user and put a
index.php script that show the user profile. But then there would be a
lot of folders. how can I catch the user1 from the url request string
www.myWebSite.com/user1
The ssecond solution would be to set the page not found script in
Apache. But then again I need to capture the 'user1' from the request
string.

I appreciate your help and welcome any suggestions.

Thank you.




Discussion 1-
http://groups.google.com/group/Profe...6e1b11a08c5cf2
Discussion 2-
http://groups.google.com/group/php.g...b3b100d70a196e
Discussion 3-
http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-H...531288b538882e
Discussion 4-
http://groups.google.com/group/mysql...cff7c40c161889
Discussion 5-
http://groups.google.com/group/OOP-P...a2c6e36c3bc006
Discussion 6-
http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-M...c403cec4bc14e8
Discussion 7-
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....12f83d1cdb278d
Discussion 8-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...4bf3f43c74f633

PD wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I had posted a question regarding how to design high traffic fast
> dating website on different PHP groups. I got a lot of useful
> responses. I have added links to all the posts below for reference.
>
> I am back with another question regarding the dating website. How do I
> go about creating personal user url on the site like it is done on
> MySpace.com
>
> The personal URL for user1 will look like www.myWebSite.com/user1 (do
> not click on the link... its the url format I am refering to.. not to
> this site)
>
> The first solution I know is to create a folder for each user and put a
> index.php script that show the user profile. But then there would be a
> lot of folders. how can I catch the user1 from the url request string
> www.myWebSite.com/user1
> The ssecond solution would be to set the page not found script in
> Apache. But then again I need to capture the 'user1' from the request
> string.
>
> I appreciate your help and welcome any suggestions.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
> Discussion 1-
> http://groups.google.com/group/Profe...6e1b11a08c5cf2
> Discussion 2-
> http://groups.google.com/group/php.g...b3b100d70a196e
> Discussion 3-
> http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-H...531288b538882e
> Discussion 4-
> http://groups.google.com/group/mysql...cff7c40c161889
> Discussion 5-
> http://groups.google.com/group/OOP-P...a2c6e36c3bc006
> Discussion 6-
> http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-M...c403cec4bc14e8
> Discussion 7-
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp....12f83d1cdb278d
> Discussion 8-
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...4bf3f43c74f633
>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/urlmapping.html

If your using apache that is.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Is what you're after. Once that is installed you can define rules to
translate URLs such as http://www.website.com/user.php?id=n into more
memorable pages such as http://www.website.com/Username.

Just remember that if you want to apply rules to the whole server, then
the httpd.conf file has to be edited, otherwise, (for directory
specific rules) you can add a .htaccess file to your directory.

Regards,

Kieran

N.B. This can be quite difficult to implement successfully. I
reccommend you read as much documentation from Apache as you possibly
can. Try the Apache group too.