Ask HN: How to Create Vanity URLs in PHP

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Hi, I'm looking to create Vanity URLs for every user on my website (in PHP), like xyz.com/userone - which will host his profile. Editing may or may not be on the vanity URL. Any ideas/tips/resources on how do I o about doing this ?

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Start with GET variables, eg. example.com/?bla/something/whatever

Use a .htaccess file to re-route every 404-resulting request (eg xyz.com/bla/something/ doesn't really exist) to index.php, then you can explode() the $_GET variable (look at what $_SERVER outputs).

are you using a framework? usually comes built in with most php frameworks.

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