Optionally supporting mod_rewrite

[PCSpectra]

What methods do you use when your application uses mod_rewrite but you wish to provide a failsafe backup incase mod_rewrite is disabled???

[feyd]

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[PCSpectra]

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You really don't feel like spending much time replying to me tonight do you? I'm looking for technique here...I have a few ideas...but I'm curious what others might come up with...

For instance a less than ideal method might consist of template logic which checks for mod_rewrite and outputs a link accordingly...a better approach might be using the same technique that session funcitons do when cookies aren't available...

What technique do you use...maybe something better than the above...which I'd love to hear...

[feyd]

The concept is to have a class for each link type and detection code that can tell you which is best to use for any given page request. So long as you have a unified way of referencing files, it shouldn't be too much of a problem for it to handle all link generations.

I personally don't care about mod_rewrite or so called "search-engine-friendly" URLs.

[Chris Corbyn]

I'd look at how wordpress do it.

[johno]

Try http://www.example.com/?somepath/anotherpath/ and look at $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

[m3mn0n]

First, make sure you use the mod_rewrite flags QSA and L

then because the query arguments are being secretly passed still as variables you can use like normal ( eg. $_REQUEST['first'], etc. ) simply develop a function in place of the actual URLS.

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echo "blablabla.com/first/second/third/";

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echo "blablabla.com/". ReWrite("first", "second", "third) ."/";

Then in this function you can make a check for a mod_rewrite variable being set to ON or OFF.

Then based on that you can deliver the urls...

if mod_rewrite was on, the above code would output:

blablabla.com/first/second/third/

if mod_rewrite was off, the above code would output:

blablabla.com/index.php?variable1=first&variable2=second&variable3=third

and because it's a function, you can change variable names to be output based on what first variable was sent in for example, like a reverse mod_rewrite


That's how I'd do it, but then again, I'd just say get mod_rewrite or don't use this app

[PCSpectra]

Try http://www.example.com/?somepath/anotherpath/ and look at $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

Boom, thats brilliant!!! Didn't even think of that...wicked thanks dude

[johno]

No problem man. Enjoy!