userid/username maping

[mindcry]

Is there anyway to have the userids mapped to the usernames maybe have something like domain.com/username to show the a users profile. Even if it was a subfolder like domain.com/user/username something along those lines. I tried searching but I havent seen it on the site.

[ConqSoft]

Something like this?

http://www.fireblades.org/forums/members/conqsoft.html

;)

[SuperFly]

how did you do that?

[Adrian Schneider]

mod_rewrite
http://wwww.site.com/forums/members/$1 to http://www.site.com/forums/member.php?username=$1

(pseudo code)

[SuperFly]

Sorry but i do not understand

[ConqSoft]

I use a commercial product that does it, plus a lot of other things. You should be able to do it with a .htaccess with code similar to the above.

[SuperFly]

any idea? i entered it and it gave me a server cant post error

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Search for mod_rewrite and you will probably find a few posts about this.

[mindcry]

yeah thanks guys I did this last night. mod_rewrite pointed me in the right searching direction. I added this to my .htaccess RewriteRule ^members/(.*)$ member.php?username=$1 and it works great. In the MEMBERINFO template I had to add a / before everything so that it would point back to the root