Create follow up page for the user

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What I mean by that is, so lets say I have a page for the user itself: localhost/blog/profile/ImUser1

I want to have other pages for the user like: localhost/blog/profile/ImUser1/my_subscribers Or localhost/blog/profile/ImUser1/my_posts

How do I create those kind of pages, like the subscriber page?

My current .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine On CheckCaseOnly On CheckSpelling On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteRule ^profile/(.*)$ /blog/profile.php?username=$1 [QSA,L]

This allows for me to get to the userpage. And I need to have the username in the URL because thats how I extract information of who is subscribed to them.

Here is how I structured my PHP so far:

if(isset($_GET['username']) === true && empty($_GET['username']) === false){ $username = $_GET['username']; if(user_exists($username) === true){ echo 'Welcome to '.$username.' page!'; } }else{ echo 'Please enter a username in the URL'; }

How do I tweak my PHP and .htaccess to make it work?

Check this out: stackoverflow.com/questions/7930849/php-url-rewrite — Hanlet Escaño
– Hanlet Escaño, Commented Apr 8, 2013 at 18:26

Bobulous · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-08 22:26:40Z

You could add an extra query-string variable to the request for profile.php which specifies the mode. Something like this:

RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ /blog/profile.php?username=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-z][a-z_]*)/?$ /blog/profile.php?username=$1&mode=$2 [L]

This way, a request for /blog/profile/some_user/some_mode will send the request to profile.php?username=some_user&mode=some_mode allowing your PHP script to check for a mode variable and render the page or redirect the page accordingly.

I've changed the username pattern from (.*) to [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+ to stop it slurping up forward-slashes, and to require it to be at least one character in length. And I've used [a-z][a-z_]* for the mode pattern to require it to start with lowercase letters and then allow underscores.

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