How to make a virtual file in php

Question

Suppose if the user is entering the url http://example.com/profile_103.php , i need to display the profile of user having an id 103 and the file profile_103.php does not exist. I need to get the values extracted from the file name that the user types .

How can i do this in php ?

Take a look @ [URL rewriting with PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php) — Alex K., Oct 07 '14 at 12:01
Why do you have to do it like this? Isn't it better to use `/profile/103` then use uri rewriting to get the parameter? — Jørgen R, Oct 07 '14 at 12:01
All of these http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=htaccess+rewrite — Mike B, Oct 07 '14 at 12:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 12:10

Quick & dirty solution with Apache & PHP for http://example.com/profile_103.php:

Make sure you have RewriteEngine on in Apache
Make an .htaccessfile with the following content:

RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 403 /..*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
Content of index.php is:

$userId = str_replace('.php', '', str_replace("/profile_", '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
echo $userId;

How to make a virtual file in php

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