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Thread ID: 118581 2011-06-12 08:23:00 Web Design question - coding Renmoo (66) Press F1
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1208534 2011-06-12 08:23:00 Hey all,

I am trying to create the following, in which when the user types:


www.domainname.com

The "uniqueinformationgoeshere" bit will be copied and pasted into a text field in a index.php document that is stored in the root directory.

How do I do that?

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
1208535 2011-06-12 09:01:00 Could do it with URL rewriting, passing the "unique text" to index.php. inphinity (7274)
1208536 2011-06-12 09:04:00 Hmmmm, explain a bit more? :) Renmoo (66)
1208537 2011-06-12 09:33:00 Use www.iwebtool.com to generate a .htaccess file which can be used to configure URL rewriting. somebody (208)
1208538 2011-06-12 09:42:00 Right. After generating the .htaccess file, how do I go about retrieving the URL and insert it into the textfield? Renmoo (66)
1208539 2011-06-12 10:28:00 Your index.php file will need to take the argument (for example, blah=myfunnything) and insert it into the input field's value. somebody (208)
1208540 2011-06-12 12:02:00 I just realised that I omitted a crucial information: The part where it says "uniqueinformationgoeshere" of the link www.domainname.com is generated dynamically (i.e. it is different every time).

In other words, there isn't a set "uniqueinformationgoeshere" that I can enter at the end of the domain name in the .htaccess URL rewrite Enter Dynamic URL textfield.
Renmoo (66)
1208541 2011-06-12 20:43:00 If it *had* to be /uniqueinformationgoeshere as opposed to /index.php?i=uniqueinformationgoeshere then I'd be outta ideas, but if not, then perhaps this might be of use:
www.w3schools.com
Chilling_Silence (9)
1208542 2011-06-13 01:37:00 You can use url rewriting with a regex to pass /anyrandomvalue to index.php. inphinity (7274)
1208543 2011-06-13 07:47:00 I *think* (and haven't test this) that the following .htaccess might do the trick - at least it's a starting point to think about:



Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule /([a-zA-Z]*) index.php?blah=$1


Then you would need some PHP code to retrieve the "blah" variable and stick the value into the text box.
somebody (208)
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