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Member's profiles

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:01 pm
by Tronox
I need some help on creating a user profile system. I already have register / login system. After registration each user should have his own page, which he can customize (change background colour, layout etc.) URL should be http://www.mydomain.com/username . I have no idea how to do this. Should I create a seperate folder for each user? Or is there another way?
Thanks

Re: Member's profiles

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:26 pm
by Jonah Bron
You can use url rewriting to map /users/username to, for example, /users/user.php?user=username. So when a user visits http://example.com/users/joe, the server sends back http://example.com/users/user.php?user=joe. There are lots of tutorials online:

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+url+rewriting