www.domain.com/4 Short URL question

mrblack · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

I want to have redirection look like this
http://www.domain.com/4 instead of http://domain.com/member4.html

Like myspace does with member id's

Later of course I want to create a new field that is filled out it will replace the userid with the field data. But I am sure that is a difficult task so that is on hold for awhile. lol

dcz

Actually, thanks to the zero dupe, it's really easy.

You'd only need to add a rewriterule to handle these.

Just add :

mrblack · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

thanks that worked Smile

you are a life saver. How hard would it be to create redirecting from http://www.domain.com/customurl and custom url being a costom field I added via registration?

dcz

Well, it all depends on what would be the variables content and how you'd catch it by the script.

If the variable only contains a text strig without spaces, you could go for something like :

mrblack · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

custom field would be restricted of special characters/spaces and limited to 20 characters. I know how to add a custom field to profile/registration cause I read the tutorial lol. Example.

Custom URL: http://www.scenespot.com/ [text input]
Once chosen your custom url cannot be changed.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=86960&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
is the url for the tutorial I used to add a new field. So that part I understand and have used this for other things to display data in the profile. but once I have created it lets call it 'customurl' then how do I get that to redirect using that data?

dcz

So this is the input, what would be the php script targeted ?

Here you seems to be in the case where the rewriterule I suggested will work, as long as you update the targeted script.

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mrblack · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

the input will be stored in database and hopefull take you to the profile jusy as http://www.scenespot.com/4 would

dcz

Then, assuming you'll be using a new GET var for this one, and deal with it in the php script to link it to the user id, this should do it, preferably at the end of your .htaccess to avoid possible confusion with other rules :