url help please

Hi am trying to make my urls like this with username instead of id numbers.

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?act=showmember=davie33

And like this.

http://www.mysite.com/showmember/davie33.html

This is my code for seo yes and no.How do i redo this ?.

if ( $seo=='yes') {
$memberlink = $siteurl.'showmember/'.$id.'.html';
} else {
$memberlink = $siteurl . 'index.php?act=showmember&id='.$id;
}

And how would i do this for htaccess file ?.

try this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /act=$1=$2 [L] 

and this

http://www.mysite.com/ABC/davie33.html

should become

http://www.mysite.com/act=ABC=davie33

OR

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule showmember/([^/]+)\.html$ /act=showmember=$1 [L] 

for sticky showmember

try this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /act=$1=$2 [L] 

 

and this

http://www.mysite.com/ABC/davie33.html

should become

http://www.mysite.com/act=ABC=davie33

 

 

OR

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule showmember/([^/]+)\.html$ /act=showmember=$1 [L] 

 

for sticky showmember

so for the php code part of it would i fix that if i use option one ?.

if ( $seo=='yes') {
$memberlink = $siteurl.'showmember/'.$id.'.html';
} else {
$memberlink = $siteurl . 'index.php?act=showmember&id='.$id;
}

If that .htaccess file exists and apache mod_rewrite is on, then

both links

1. http://www.mysite.com/showmember/davie33.html

2. http://www.mysite.com/showmember=ABC=davie33

will go to index.php

Where as without the .htaccess file only link 2 would work

the PHP would just need to use $_GET['showmember'] to get davie33

**Correction!**

showmember=ABC=davie33  ???

this that right ?

I assume you mean

?act=ABC&id=davie33

Update .htaccess to

RewriteRule ([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /?act=$1&id=$2 [L] 

thus $_GET['id'] would be davie33

and $_GET['act'] would be showmember

As far as i have just been told that having 2 = is bad for url as i would need something like this &id=1&name=arcadedude.

man now am getting well :S with this.

Its bad for SEO, BUT required for code

But as your going to be using pretty URL's that are good for SEO, so it will cancel out the bad 

So here is the logic

<?php
echo "Action ".$_GET['act'];
echo "\n<br />"; 
echo "I am Member ".$_GET['id'];
?>

Add .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/([^/]+)\.html$ /?act=$1&id=$2 [L] 

Now test

test links (OLD style) with 2 gets

http://www.mysite.com/?act=showmember=&id=davie33

http://www.mysite.com/?act=killuser=&id=davie33

test links (NEW style) with well none!

http://www.mysite.com/showmember/davie33.html

http://www.mysite.com/killuser/davie33.html

This is my act from my index.php

switch($_GET['act']){
case 'showmember':
include ("templates/".$theme."/showmember.php");
break;
}

this is my R/rule

RewriteRule showmember/(.*)\.html$ index.php?act=showmember&id=$1

I want to keep it in same format but without the id number showing.

This is my php code link that will show my members.

<a href="<?php echo $memberlink;?>"><?php echo $username;?></a>

Which takes me to

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?act=showmember&id=2

http://www.mysite.com/showmember/2.html

How do i do it like you said but keeping it in same format with showmember in link

like this

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?act=showmember$id=davie33 <<<<< as username

http://www.mysite.com/showmember/davie33.html

I know it works like this.

if ( $seo=='yes') {
$memberlink = $siteurl.'showmember/'.$id.'/'.$username.'.html';
} else {
$memberlink = $siteurl . 'index.php?act=showmember&id='.$id.'='.$username;
}

Which gives u link like this.

http://www.mysite.com/showmember/1/davie33.html

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?act=showmember$id=1=davie33

Which is bad for the 2nd link.

Am just trying to break it down abit for you from my code and i am trying to understand what your saying.

what your need to do is add a routine to allow lookups by UserName,

for example

I assume it currently has a SQL statement like this

SELECT * FROM Users WHERE userID= $_GET['id']

your need to update it

to something like this

SELECT * FROM Users WHERE username= $_GET['username']

then add the htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule showmember/([^/]+)\.html$ /?act=$1&username=$2 [L] 

Now in the showmember.php file, i assume you have

if(isset($_GET['id'])){
     $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE userID=%d",$_GET['id']);
}

you could update that so it handles both ie

if(isset($_GET['id'])){
     $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE userID=%d",$_GET['id']);
}elseif(isset($_GET['username'])){
     $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE userID=%d",$_GET['id']);
}