[thelist] Directory style query strings without using mod_rewrite

[Simon Coggins]

> Basically as the subject says, I want to mask query strings as directory
> style URL's but cant use mod_rewrite.
> 
> Does anyone know how this would be done?
> Server is PHP/Apache.

You can kind of fake this effect using the $PATH_INFO variable which is
sent by apache. If you request the file:

http://www.myserver.com/index.php/url/string/here

the file index.php will have a variable $PATH_INFO available to it with
the value "/url/string/here". You can then extract the info you need
from the string. The downside is that you still have index.php in the url

Hope that helps,

Simon