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Anonymous
April 8, 2010
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php script needed to generate unique page

  • April 8, 2010
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Thank you for your understanding, I hope I am in the right place.

I am trying to generate about 30 unique pages to be visited by recipients of a piece of mail.

I am planning to use .htaccess to redirect the visitor to the unique, shortened url.

I cannot figure out how to get this to all work together. Please help

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Anonymous
April 9, 2010

I think if you're a bit more specific about what you're trying to do you will get more help... your description is very vague.

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Anonymous
April 9, 2010

I am trying to implement a personalized url (purl) to print on a mail piece. I have created a mysql database and a form that places some unique information about the visitor using php.

I have successfully linked the page to the database and I believe the scripts for mailing responses will work, based on earlier successes. I did the binding to link the correct field from the database to the url. But now what?

My problem is that I have never generated a unique page and I cannot figure out how to do that. I am thinking that I need some piece of php script to create the dynamic page.

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Anonymous
April 11, 2010

Sorry.

I think I spoke too soon. I got the page to load the way I wanted it to, but I could not get the htaccess rewrite to work. I think I need to go back to the mySQL statement. I don't think I can use the "id" field. I think I need to use a field called "pageaddress" it is a longer text field that I plan to print on the mail piece.

I tried to vary the statement you suggested, but it yielded an error and messed up the whole recordset.


I'm not really sure why you want to use .htaccess for this. In fact, I'm not really sure how you are going to use .htaccess for this. Just my opinion, but I think the easiest way to do this is to create a cool subdomain for each person and forward it to the URL that you want (like I mentioned earlier in the thread.) WAYYYY easier.

Also, if you want a really easy way to secure the pages without requiring a log-in, you can add one more field to the table called, say, "secure."  Then in your WHERE statement, require the id field AND secure field match. A person would have to change the id in the url AND guess the corresponding "secure" integer to access someone else's page.  Just a thought.

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