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[Graham Hagger]

We actually do this at my work.  I don't have the details to hand, but 
it basically involves setting the apache document root to be your actual 
script, ie. index.php.  That way no matter what url you request you will 
always hit that page.

The script then examines the url that was requested to determine exactly 
what page it should be rendered.

Sorry to not have details - but it is possible.

Graham

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> I'm considering a simple site that I may design in PHP. PHP is 
> probably the simplest solution except for one thing: it carries a very 
> strong coupling between pages and scripts. As far as I've ever been 
> able to tell PHP really, really, really wants there to be a single 
> primary .php file for each URL that does not contain a query string 
> (though that file may of course invoke others).
>
> For the system I'm designing that simply won't work. In Java servlet 
> environments it's relatively trivial to map one servlet to an entire 
> directory structure, so that it handles all requests for all pages 
> within that hierarchy.
>
> Is there any *reasonable* way to do this in PHP? The only way I've 
> ever seen is what WordPress does: use mod_rewrite to redirect all 
> requests within the hierarchy to a custom dispatcher script that 
> converts actual hierarchy components into query string variables. I am 
> impressed by this hack, but it's way too kludgy for me to be 
> comfortable with. For one thing, I don't want to depend on mod_rewrite 
> if I don't have to.
>
> Surely by now there's a better way? How do I overcome the one file per 
> URL assumption that PHP makes?
>