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brent-man on 12/01/07

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.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

images.php, browse.php, index.php

RewriteRule ^(images|browse|index)(/.*)?$ $1.php

above can obviously be expanded

GoDaddy users add this to the beginning of your htaccess or you will throw an error

Options +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks

make sure you wait about 5-10 minutes after uploading the revised .htaccess, for some reason, GoDaddy takes a few minutes to revise the .htaccess

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<?php
 
$urlArray = explode("/",$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
$url_what = $urlArray[count($urlArray)-1];
 
 
if($url_what == 'home') {
        // rather than index.php?act=home, url would be index/home
	displayHome();
}elseif($url_what == 'contact'){
        // rather than index.php?act=contact,url will be index/contact
	displayContact();
}elseif($url_what == 'calendar'){
        // rather than index.php?act=calendar,url will be index/calendar
	displayCalendar();
}elseif($url_what == 'about'){
        // rather than index.php?act=about,url will be index/about
	displayAbout();
}else
        //if $url_what doesn't exist, display home
	writeHome();
 
?>