[thelist] web page extensions

JJ shhhh at silence.co.nz
Thu Jul 25 19:13:01 CDT 2002


It could be a case where the following happens:

http://example.com/catalog/newcar

"catalog" is actually a file (say PHP for example) which reads "newcar" in
as a value and displays the page based on that variable. It's a handy way to
end up with search engine friendly URLs, rather than say

http://example.com/catalog.php?page=newcar

It would use something along the lines of...

<Files catalog>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

in the .htaccess to force the file to PHP and then

<?
$var_array = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);
$page = $var_array[1];
?>

inside the file 'catalog' to set the variables based on what follows the '/'
:o)

Cheers,
JJ
First time poster, long time lurker


> On Thursday 25 July 2002 9:57 pm, Mark Joslyn wrote:
> > So companies that implement this system have a lot of files named
> > index.html or default.html (one for each directory)? That seems a little
> > confusing to keep naming files the same name.
>
> Yes, you do end up with quite a lot of index files.  It's not confusing
> however; since you are clearly organising your files into a directory
> structure, there should be no confusion over different files because of
> their context - when you edit example.com/catalogue/index.html you aren't
> going to confuse it with example.com/support/index.html





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