How to give personal user url on a dating website just like MySpace does?

Hello everyone,

I had posted a question regarding how to design high traffic
fast
dating website on different PHP groups. I got a lot of
useful
responses. I have added links to all the posts below for
reference.

I am back with another question regarding the dating
website. How do I
go about creating personal user url on the site like it is
done on
MySpace.com

The personal URL for user1 will look like
www.myWebSite.com/user1 (do
not click on the link... its the url format I am refering
to.. not to
this site)

The first solution I know is to create a folder for each
user and put a
index.php script that show the user profile. But then there
would be a
lot of folders. how can I catch the user1 from the url
request string
www.myWebSite.com/user1
The ssecond solution would be to set the page not found
script in
Apache. But then again I need to capture the 'user1' from
the request
string.

I appreciate your help and welcome any suggestions.

Thank you.




Discussion 1-
http://groups.google.com/group/Pr
ofessional-PHP/browse_thread/thread/9e3a4ee1ccd62933/d96e1b1
1a08c5cf2?q=dating&rnum=1#d96e1b11a08c5cf2
Discussion 2-
http://groups.google.com/group/php.gen
eral/browse_thread/thread/9c268cb8cf9bb6d5/15b3b100d70a196e?
q=dating&rnum=9#15b3b100d70a196e
Discussion 3-
http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-Hacks/b
rowse_thread/thread/793932096de300/e5531288b538882e?q=dating
&rnum=1#e5531288b538882e
Discussion 4-
http://groups.google.com/group/mysql/browse_
thread/thread/40de2656406041d9/c8cff7c40c161889?q=dating&
;rnum=1#c8cff7c40c161889
Discussion 5-
http://groups.google.com/group/OOP-PHP/bro
wse_thread/thread/af9e2bc045dad881/2ba2c6e36c3bc006?q=dating
&rnum=1#2ba2c6e36c3bc006
Discussion 6-
http://groups.google.com/group/PHP-Mas
ters/browse_thread/thread/cdfc7d1b68e0278c/46c403cec4bc14e8?
q=dating&rnum=1#46c403cec4bc14e8
Discussion 7-
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.l
ang.php/browse_thread/thread/822719f4639b883/e712f83d1cdb278
d?q=dating&rnum=5#e712f83d1cdb278d
Discussion 8-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.php
.sql/browse_thread/thread/b22afb9a6b984952/414bf3f43c74f633?
q=dating&rnum=1#414bf3f43c74f633


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Take a look at URL rewrites if you're using apache.

They allow use of regexp to map something like
www.myWebSite.com/user1
to
www.myWebSite.com/user.php?uid=user1

The visitor only ever sees the URL typed in but it is
processed as the
second option.

Cheers,

Mal


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