Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

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Hi All,

I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
have there own profile page with a static URL like-

http://www.abcnetwork/user/username

Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.

This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail (this
is my profile page).

So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
kind of methodology youtube is following?

Thanks in Advance.

Gaurav Kumar
OSWebstudio.com

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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:24 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
> have there own profile page with a static URL like-
>
> http://www.abcnetwork/user/username
>
> Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.
>
> This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail (this
> is my profile page).
>
> So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
> kind of methodology youtube is following?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Gaurav Kumar
> OSWebstudio.com

If you're working on an Apache server, your best bet is to look at
mod_rewrite. You can write a simple rule to match against these sorts of
URL formats, so that to your visitors it appears as if the actual path
exists, but internally it can get translated to something like
http://www.abcnetwork.com/profile.php?id=username

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk




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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

----- Original Message ----
> From: Gaurav Kumar
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 12:54:30 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
> have there own profile page with a static URL like-
>
> http://www.abcnetwork/user/username
>
> Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.
>
> This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail (this
> is my profile page).
>
> So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
> kind of methodology youtube is following?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Gaurav Kumar
> OSWebstudio.com

Assuming the 'username' is from DB, look into URL rewrite. Thus, client see this

http://www.abcnetwork/user/username

which translates into this (or something similar) to PHP

http://www.abcnetwork/userProfile.php?user=username

Of course, you'll need to handle the 404 just in case ;)

Regards,
Tommy


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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

be aware if you do not have full control of your server setup, this type of
parameter handling is not possible on most shared hostings.

however url encoded it is never a problem. so be clear where yout page will
be hosted.

ralph_deffke@yahoo.de

"Gaurav Kumar" wrote in message
news:87292e170909210054k79858b96yf09eeca5111ec788@mail.gmail .com...
> Hi All,
>
> I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
> have there own profile page with a static URL like-
>
> http://www.abcnetwork/user/username
>
> Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.
>
> This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail
(this
> is my profile page).
>
> So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
> kind of methodology youtube is following?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Gaurav Kumar
> OSWebstudio.com
>



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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

Hi,

> ...

As has been suggested you could use mod_rewrite, but you don't have to
if your needs are simple (or maybe you don't have it). You could also
use the ForceType directive. Eg on my website the URLs are like this:

http://www.phpguru.org/article/20-years-of-php

Where "article" is actually a PHP file without the .php extension.
It's forced to run as a PHP file using this:


ForceType application/x-httpd-php


And you will find the URL in $_SERVER somewhere.

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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

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A Big Thanks to all of you.

Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is the answer, but
I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than just /username a la
twitter."

I will be using many other aspects of my users something like
"/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".

OK Ashley, Tommy and Ralph-

100% correct that mod_rewrite will be used.

I am a bit sticky that my URL will be-
"http://www.abcnetwork/user/*Ashley*".

So will I get $_GET["user"] with value as "*Ashley*" or *Tommy* in my
script?

So what exactly will be
the ".htaccess" rule for above?


Thanks,

Gaurav Kumar
OSWebstudio.Com



On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:24 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
> > have there own profile page with a static URL like-
> >
> > http://www.abcnetwork/user/username
> >
> > Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.
> >
> > This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail(this
> > is my profile page).
> >
> > So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
> > kind of methodology youtube is following?
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > Gaurav Kumar
> > OSWebstudio.com
>
> If you're working on an Apache server, your best bet is to look at
> mod_rewrite. You can write a simple rule to match against these sorts of
> URL formats, so that to your visitors it appears as if the actual path
> exists, but internally it can get translated to something like
> http://www.abcnetwork.com/profile.php?id=username
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
>

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RE: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

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> Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is the answer=
=2C but
> I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than just /username a la
> twitter."
>=20
> I will be using many other aspects of my users something like
> "/projects/username/"=3B "/gallery/username/".

well=2C it does not matter if this service is user based.

/username/ #as user home page

/username/projects/ #as user projects

/username/gallery/ #as user gallery

/username/etc ...

it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly know if user =
exists and you instantly know subsections

In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user while he could=
have created only projects=2C without galleries.
So one search failed=2C while to go in the user page I need to digit /user/=
before=2C not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and bit.ly era

Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name plus subsectio=
n


/p/myprojname/

/p/myprojname/wiki

since you are starting now=2C maybe you could consider this semantic altern=
ative=2C if it suits your requirements.

Regards
> > Thanks=2C
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >

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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

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I totally agree with this architecture.

You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and in fact
still need to define the architecture in detail.

Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered?

Gaurav Kumar
OSWebstudio.Com

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi wrot=
e:

>
>
> >
> > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is the answer=
,
> but
> > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than just /username a la
> > twitter."
> >
> > I will be using many other aspects of my users something like
> > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".
>
> well, it does not matter if this service is user based.
>
> /username/ #as user home page
> /username/projects/ #as user projects
> /username/gallery/ #as user gallery
> /username/etc ...
>
> it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly know if use=
r
> exists and you instantly know subsections
>
> In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user while he cou=
ld
> have created only projects, without galleries.
> So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to digit /user/
> before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and bit.ly era
>
> Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name plus
> subsection
>
> /p/myprojname/
> /p/myprojname/wiki
>
> since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this semantic
> alternative, if it suits your requirements.
>
> Regards
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ash
> > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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> way beyond your inbox. More than messages s/windowslive/>
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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> I totally agree with this architecture.=20
>=20
> You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and in
> fact still need to define the architecture in detail.
>=20
> Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered?
>=20
> Gaurav Kumar
> OSWebstudio.Com
>=20
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> wrote:
> =20
> =20
> >=20
> > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is
> the answer, but
> > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than
> just /username a la
> > twitter."
> >=20
> > I will be using many other aspects of my users something
> like
> > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".
> =20
> =20
> well, it does not matter if this service is user based.
> =20
> /username/ #as user home page
> /username/projects/ #as user projects
> /username/gallery/ #as user gallery
> /username/etc ...
> =20
> it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly
> know if user exists and you instantly know subsections
> =20
> In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user
> while he could have created only projects, without galleries.
> So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to
> digit /user/ before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and
> bit.ly era
> =20
> Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name
> plus subsection
> =20
> /p/myprojname/
> /p/myprojname/wiki
> =20
> since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this
> semantic alternative, if it suits your requirements.
> =20
> Regards
> =20
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ash
> > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> =20
> =20
> =20
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> check out the rest of the Windows Liveâ„=A2. More than mail=
â€=93
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ges
>=20
For help with the mod_rewrite, a Google search never goes amiss, first
result I found for 'mod_rewrite example' is
http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite . I looked
at it quickly and it does cover what you need.

As for what you get as $_GET parameters, that's entirely up to you, and
as you will see from the above link, it's fairly simple to mess about
with.


Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk




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Thanks Ashley and all the folks out there...

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ashley Sheridan
wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> > I totally agree with this architecture.
> >
> > You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and in
> > fact still need to define the architecture in detail.
> >
> > Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered?
> >
> > Gaurav Kumar
> > OSWebstudio.Com
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is
> > the answer, but
> > > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than
> > just /username a la
> > > twitter."
> > >
> > > I will be using many other aspects of my users something
> > like
> > > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".
> >
> >
> > well, it does not matter if this service is user based.
> >
> > /username/ #as user home page
> > /username/projects/ #as user projects
> > /username/gallery/ #as user gallery
> > /username/etc ...
> >
> > it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly
> > know if user exists and you instantly know subsections
> >
> > In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user
> > while he could have created only projects, without galleries.
> > So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to
> > digit /user/ before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and
> > bit.ly era
> >
> > Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name
> > plus subsection
> >
> > /p/myprojname/
> > /p/myprojname/wiki
> >
> > since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this
> > semantic alternative, if it suits your requirements.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ash
> > > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________ __
> > check out the rest of the Windows Live=99. More than mail=96
> > Windows Live=99 goes way beyond your inbox. More than messages
> >
> For help with the mod_rewrite, a Google search never goes amiss, first
> result I found for 'mod_rewrite example' is
> http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite . I looked
> at it quickly and it does cover what you need.
>
> As for what you get as $_GET parameters, that's entirely up to you, and
> as you will see from the above link, it's fairly simple to mess about
> with.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
>

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Re: Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ralph Deffke
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:31:05 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username
>
> be aware if you do not have full control of your server setup, this type of
> parameter handling is not possible on most shared hostings.
>
> however url encoded it is never a problem. so be clear where yout page will
> be hosted.
>
> ralph_deffke@yahoo.de
>

If your hosting service company doesn't permit/use URL rewrite (mod_rewrite for Apache), then ask them to specify a 404 error page for you. You can then do an ugly hack of URL rewrite in your (PHP) 404 error page so the URL will be SEF ;)

Regards,
Tommy

> "Gaurav Kumar" wrote in message
> news:87292e170909210054k79858b96yf09eeca5111ec788@mail.gmail .com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am creating a social networking website. I want that every user should
> > have there own profile page with a static URL like-
> >
> > http://www.abcnetwork/user/username
> >
> > Where username will be dynamic userid or something else.
> >
> > This is something very similar to www.youtube.com/user/kumargauravmail
> (this
> > is my profile page).
> >
> > So what should be the best practice to create such DYNAMIC URL's OR what
> > kind of methodology youtube is following?
> >
> > Thanks in Advance.
> >
> > Gaurav Kumar
> > OSWebstudio.com
> >
>
>
>
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=0A> > You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and =
in=0A> > fact still need to define the architecture in detail.=0A> > =0A> >=
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> > twitter."=0A> > > =0A> > > I will be using man=
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> well, it does not matter if this service is user based.=0A> > =
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/p/myprojname/=0A> > /p/myprojname/wiki=0A> > =0A> > =
since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this=0A> > =
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Re: Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL"s- With Username

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 03:42 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ashley Sheridan
> > To: Gaurav Kumar
> > Cc: Andrea Giammarchi ; php-general@lists.php.net
> > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:55:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Best Practice to Create Dynamic URL's- With Username
> >=20
> > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> > > I totally agree with this architecture.=20
> > >=20
> > > You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and i=
n
> > > fact still need to define the architecture in detail.
> > >=20
> > > Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered?
> > >=20
> > > Gaurav Kumar
> > > OSWebstudio.Com
> > >=20
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> > > wrote:
> > > =20
> > > =20
> > > >=20
> > > > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess i=
s
> > > the answer, but
> > > > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than
> > > just /username a la
> > > > twitter."
> > > >=20
> > > > I will be using many other aspects of my users something
> > > like
> > > > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/".
> > > =20
> > > =20
> > > well, it does not matter if this service is user based.
> > > =20
> > > /username/ #as user home page
> > > /username/projects/ #as user projects
> > > /username/gallery/ #as user gallery
> > > /username/etc ...
> > > =20
> > > it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly
> > > know if user exists and you instantly know subsections
> > > =20
> > > In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user
> > > while he could have created only projects, without galleries.
> > > So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to
> > > digit /user/ before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and
> > > bit.ly era
> > > =20
> > > Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name
> > > plus subsection
> > > =20
> > > /p/myprojname/
> > > /p/myprojname/wiki
> > > =20
> > > since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this
> > > semantic alternative, if it suits your requirements.
> > > =20
> > > Regards
> > > =20
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Ash
> > > > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > =20
> > > =20
> > > =20
> > > ____________________________________________________________ _=
_
> > > check out the rest of the Windows Liveâ„=A2. More than ma=
ilâ€=93
> > > Windows Liveâ„=A2 goes way beyond your inbox. More than m=
essages
> > >=20
> > For help with the mod_rewrite, a Google search never goes amiss, first
> > result I found for 'mod_rewrite example' is
> > http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite . I looked
> > at it quickly and it does cover what you need.
> >=20
> > As for what you get as $_GET parameters, that's entirely up to you, and
> > as you will see from the above link, it's fairly simple to mess about
> > with.
> >=20
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >=20
> >=20
>=20
> Ash,
>=20
> What's the IP that the link you gave resolve to? I'm getting timed out f=
or the DNS lookup on my end ...=20
>=20
> Thanks,
> Tommy
>=20
> >=20
> >=20
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>=20
>=20

I get 80.82.121.153 for it. You might have an issue with your DNS
server. There are a lot of freely available alternative DNS servers
about the world that you can use instead. I had to do that myself one
time, when the DNS server issued by my ISP was misbehaving and I was
getting lots of timeouts just like you are getting.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk




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