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

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

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

Just add :

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# shorter PROFILES
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

After :

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#PROFILES
RewriteRule ^membre([0-9]+)\.html$ /profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

in your .htaccess (could need to add paths like in your other rewriterules).

The zero dupe will do the rest

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thanks that worked 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?

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 :

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)$ /script.php?var=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

We need the rewritecond here to first make sure a physical file with the same name as the text string sent does not really exist, in such case, we give it the priority to let it load.

If you where using a folder with only script.php in it, you could have the reg-ex working faster with only :

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RewriteRule ^folder/([a-z0-9]+)$ /folder/script.php?var=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

But this is only a possible example, what would you put into this added field, and what would you like to do with it ?

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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/viewtopi ... &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?

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

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 :

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)$ /profile.php?mode=viewprofile&stringvar=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

You should, with this, use $_GET['stringvar'] in profile.php to catch this var.

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