How can I alter url or part of it using php? I lost the code that I have used and now I cannot find answer online.
I know using header('Location: www.site.com') gets redirect but how can I just show fake URL?
I don't want to use mod_rewrite now.
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1You have to dramatically improve your question, adding background story and particular example of what you want to get. Otherwise it will be closed.Your Common Sense– Your Common Sense2011-02-25 10:07:35 +00:00Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 10:07
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2So for example you want the user to be on www.fakebank.example.com but think they're on www.theirbank.example.com? Not a chance, sorry.Gareth– Gareth2011-02-25 10:12:38 +00:00Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 10:12
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1Do you want to become hacker?Harry Joy– Harry Joy2011-02-25 10:15:13 +00:00Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 10:15
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1Btw, the Location header takes the protocol, www.site.com will redirect to yourdomain.com/www.site.com ;-)Capsule– Capsule2011-02-25 10:36:25 +00:00Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 10:36
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you can only do this on the host of a computer, hosts file and what not.RobertPitt– RobertPitt2011-02-25 10:37:52 +00:00Commented Feb 25, 2011 at 10:37
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4 Answers
It is impossible in PHP, which is executed server side. Any change to the url you make will trigger a page loading.
I think it may be possible in javascript, but I really doubt this is a good idea, if you want to rewrite an url only in the user adressbar, you're doing something wrong, or bad ;)
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MrVon66
No i am just trying to not use mod rewrite and rather make seo friendly url with php... it hink it woked once i might be wrong. You know like with mod_rewrite there is way to show one extension like index.html but feed from index.php i looking to do same with php
Teson
is catching '404-page not found' what you think of? (in the sense of redirecting the 'page' not found to a controller)
What you've actually asked for isn't possible in using PHP (Although, in JavaScript you can use the dreadful hashbang or the poorly supported bleeding edge pushState).
However, in a comment on another answer you stated that your goal is actually friendly URIs without mod_rewrite. This isn't about showing a different URI to the real one, but about making a URI that isn't based on a simple set of files and directories.
This is usually achieved (in PHP-land) with mod_rewrite, so you should probably stick with that approach.
However, you can do it using ScriptAlias (assuming you use Apache, other webservers may have different approaches).
e.g. ScriptAlias /example /var/www/example.php in the Apache configuration.
Then in the PHP script you can read $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to find out what is requested and pull in the appropriate content.
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You can make somewhat SEO-friendly URLs by adding directories after the php script name so that your URLs become:
http://yoursite.com/script.php/arg1/arg2
In script.php:
<?php
$args = preg_split('#/#', $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
echo "arg1 = ".$args[1].", arg2 = ".$args[2]."\n";
?>
if you use some more htaccess trickery, then you can make the script.php look like something else (see @David's answer for an idea)
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You can try using,
file_get_contents("https://website.com");
This is not going to redirect but fire the api and you can catch the output by assigning a variable to above function.
