url-routing

Despite my efforts to find a tutorial on how to set up a secure, single entry point architecture for a web application built with PHP, I've not been able to find a good one. Who knows, maybe my search queries were bad... Looking at Laravel's code seemed like a good idea, but it's a good way to get your head spinning. There's just too much going on there for me to understand. That being said, how would I go about for creating such an architecture that is both simple to apply to an app and secure (e.g. protect against local file inclusions) at the same time? First of all, you need to redirect

how does twitter and facebook etc. make unique url eg. twitter.com/billgates if i would like to do the same (give my users unique urls with username), is it a application or do you crate a directory for each user with a index page?? by the way im using coldfusion. thanks More generally these online services (Facebook, Twitter, any site that stores a username) use a database and tests for so see if the username is unique at the time of creation. Usually by querying the name before allowing the new account to be created (many do this with ajax requests as the user enters the name in the signup

I'm trying to create a very simple URL routing, and my thought process was this: First check all static URLs Then check database URLs Then return 404 if neither exists The static URLs are easy to do of course, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to do dynamic ones. I would prefer not to have to set a static prefix, despite knowing that it would make this a lot easier to code. This is what I currently have: $requestURL = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if ($requestURL == '/') { // do stuff for the homepage } elseif ($requestURL == '/register') { // do stuff for registration } // should match

How can I do this in PHP? e.g. bit.ly/f00b4r ==> http://www.google.com/search?q=cute+kittens In Java, the solution is this: You should issue a HEAD request to the url using a HttpWebRequest instance. In the returned HttpWebResponse, check the ResponseUri. Just make sure the AllowAutoRedirect is set to true on the HttpWebRequest instance (it is true by default). (Thx, casperOne) And the code is private static string GetRealUrl(string url) { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url); request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Head; WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); return response