Comments on: Apache Re-Writes in .htaccess

By: Vijendra

Vijendra — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:41:16 +0000

Nice shot … gr8 article .

By: Stew Parkin

Stew Parkin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:12:58 +0000

Very good point Tom, but as you pointed out, the php code is only simple, and should NOT be used on any production server!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:17:40 +0000

Oops… I should have said:
“… to help avoid SQL injection attacks.”

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:15:38 +0000

Nice to see a good, simple mod_rewrite example to help people learn, especially including some practical code to help demonstrate it in action. When I first had to deal with it, something like this would have been very useful.

As a side note, I know the PHP here is just a simple example to demo the .htaccess functionality, not a full app, but for learners reading this it may be useful to use something like…

$user = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['username']);

…just in case this app is useful to them as a basic PHP/MySQL tutorial also.