fake dirs

[sabret00the]

how would i go about setting up fake directories?

i.e.
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...me=sabret00the become www.ebslive.com/journals/sabret00the

http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...isplay=friends becomes www.ebslive.com/journals/sabret00the/friends

http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...y=syndications becomes http://www.ebslive.com/journals/sabr...e/syndications

[nico_swd]

With .htaccess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)(/)?$ user.php?username=$1 
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/friends(/)?$ user.php?username=$1&display=friends
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/syndications(/)?$ user.php?username=$1&display=syndications

This should work.

[sabret00the]

Thanks Nico, i really really really appreciate that.

[nico_swd]

No problem. You might want to add an underscore to the pattern if these are allowed in usernames.

-_A-Za-z0-9

Otherwise if it would fail if someone had a username like nico_swd, lol.

[SaN-DeeP]

how would you take care of special characters and/or other language chars via .hta ?

thanks.

[nico_swd]

I don't think I understand what you're trying to do.

[sabret00the]

Nico, one more question, say if i have
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...et00the&e=5329
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...et00the&e=5330
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/user...et00the&e=5331

and i want to change that into

http://www.ebslive.com/journals/sabret00the/e=5329
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/sabret00the/e=5330
http://www.ebslive.com/journals/sabret00the/e=5331
what would i do then?

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+) e=$2 (/)?$ user.php?username=$1&e=$2

[nico_swd]

Give this a try.

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/e=([0-9]+)$ user.php?username=$1&e=$2

EDIT:

You could take out the e= as well. This should do it.

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ user.php?username=$1&e=$2

[Antivirus]

very interesting. I can imagine the value for this in increasing security. Thanks!

[nico_swd]

Not only security. Google will love it too.