PHP take arguments from URL path

Question

Say I have a url like this:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/board1/sub-forum/topics/123

Is there a simple way in PHP (can\'t use HTAccess) to take t

Answer 1

You can, but without redirecting requests your webserver will just return a 404 error for non-existing paths.

However, you can use urls like http://your.site.com/index.php/foo/bar/baz and then split the url into parts like @pestaa said which you can then parse into parameter values.