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[_] Mod_rewrite advice needed - Flickr API integration URLs

Tom Gidden tom at gidden.net
Sat Oct 16 08:14:02 BST 2010

On 16 Oct 2010, at 04:38, Rob wrote:
> 
> how about using mod rewrite to convert your restful address from
> 
> /var1/var2
>   to
> cleverpage.php?v1=var1&v2=var2

Or, what about just using PATH_INFO in the original PHP?

I never did understand why so many developers seem to cling to QUERY_STRING and then use mod_rewrite acrobatics to transform it into a path, when they could just parse PATH_INFO to begin with.

Tom

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