How do websites make this index.php? something = somepage

Question

I saw a lot of php based sites where it doesn't matter where you go, stuck in index.php, and some random parameters are passed in the url. and when I watch the open source version that does the same thing, index.php has a bunch of inclusions in them

What is the main way I can do the same? Does this include mod rewrite?

thanks

Answer 1

I have seen this and personally think it is a terrible design. In particular, because many people are not inclined to sanitize the inclusion parameter, so that someone can include any file that they need, just by going along the relative path.

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/index.php?path=user&include=account

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/user/account

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\w+)$ /index.php?path=$1&include=$2 [L]

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RewriteRule %{THE_REQUEST} \.php$ [R=404,L]

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