My question is about htaccess rewrite (I think that's what I'm trying to do).
Do you know how facebook allows user to have their own facebook.com/username address? How do they do this with so many members? Is /username just pointed to profile.php?id=00000023201302?
Any ideas on how they do this? Do they keep a database of usernames?
Maybe they do it like this: RewriteRule ^/username /profile.php?id=idofuser and they include a check if somewhere in the domain's name is the id of the user or if it is the specific adress and if a specific adress is set but your are accessing the profile.php page they redirect you to the specific address, where the redirect won't be done. However I think that's not the way facebook does it, because you can call http://facebook.com/10000243532421 and it will redirect you to your profile.php or if set your specific address. For what do you need this information btw?
My question is about htaccess rewrite (I think that's what I'm trying to do).
Do you know how facebook allows user to have their own facebook.com/username address? How do they do this with so many members? Is /username just pointed to profile.php?id=00000023201302?
Any ideas on how they do this? Do they keep a database of usernames?
Thanks!
and they include a check if somewhere in the domain's name is the id of the user or if it is the specific adress and if a specific adress is set but your are accessing the profile.php page they redirect you to the specific address, where the redirect won't be done. However I think that's not the way facebook does it, because you can call http://facebook.com/10000243532421 and it will redirect you to your profile.php or if set your specific address.
For what do you need this information btw?