Redirecting

Alright... Lets say I want to set something up, like php.net has(or codewlakers for that matter) where you can do php.net/funcname

Now, I doubt they have a directory for every function... How would I go about setting something like this up...

I guess more what I want is this...
Lets say I go to php.net/bob

It redirects me to
http://www.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=bob&lang=en

How do you get that bob out of the URL and into another pages query URL section...

Actually, I think it's most likely Apache's mod_rewrite function.

Thats what I was afraid of....

tirdun: How would you do that?? If you are going to php.net/bob, the server should be looking for php.net/bob/index.php, which does not exist.... Unless I'm overlooking something there...

There is a fairly simple way to do this. Assuming you have access to your httpd.conf, or .htaccess:

1. Set a custom 404(not found) page:


2. Create redirect.php


3. Create query.php


This will mimic the php.net behaviour, as near as I can tell, without mod_rewrite.

brut:Thats what I was looking for, I'll give this a try, thanks alot

Alright, so I haven't tested your method yet brut, but I think the webserver will let us use mod_rewrite, so is there perhaps a tutorial that someone can point me to that can help me learn to use mod_rewrite? Or if anyone could tell me how to write teh rule that would like map

www.website.com/members/1
to
www.website.com/members/index.php?id=1

or a tutorial would be great, just anything...

Here's the documentation, and here are some examples for different scenarios.