Issues With URL

[Confused!]

Hi everyone,

I'm making a small site where users can make a profile. I know how to input
data to the database and i know how to use a template to load the specific
information into the page if a user clicks a link to that particular page BUT
my problem lays in the URL. Basically I need to be able to load a users profile
into the template if someone types in the address bar of a browser for example
[url]www.something.com/some_user_profile[/url] .

So my question is, how can I make my application know that the url typed in
the address bar will load the specific file into the template?

I really need help on this, so any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!!

[dempster]

Usually you would call a page in this form:
[url]www.something.com/showprofile.cfm?profile=some_user[/url]

Your ColdFusion program will have a variable called URL.profile that will have
the value "some_user".

You could also call it in this form:
[url]www.something.com/showprofile.cfm/some_user[/url]

The CGI variable PATH_INFO will have the value "/showprofile.cfm/some_user".
You can treat this as a list with "/" delimeters and get the last element of
the list as your query string.

Using the path also has limitations - I believe you can only pass a simple
value. You'd have to experiment.

-Paul

[Confused!]

Hi,

Well, that kind of made a little sense but I think I'll need a further example
if it's at all possible. Sorry for the annoyance!! If you or anyone else for
that matter understand what I'm going on about it'd be good if you could give
further light on the matter.

Thank you for replying and thanks alot more in advance!! Cheers.

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