Capture end of URL

[lagc]

Hello all,

I have just translated a complete English site into a German site, its identical, appart from the translations, but they are using 2 different URL's.

What I'm tying to do, is capture everything after .com into a variable, so I can add it to the German flag which will then take that person to the exact page but with .de in front of it.

eg.

http://www.mysite.com/hotel.php?Id_Hot=246480&Id=0

grabs everything after .com/ in a variable so I can have the exact same page accessed but in the german version through a german flag.

http://www.mysite.de/hotel.php?Id_Hot=246480&Id=0

Cheers

 

[jpadie]

mod_rewrite might be better for you.
are all url's fully qualified on your site?

 

[lagc]

Hi jpadie,

yes they are.

Basically it would be easier if I could grab everything after the last '\' into a variable, and I could use that.

I'm sure I have used it before, but it must have been so long ago, that I'm either wrong or forgotten it.

 

[jpadie]

this should redirect .com to .de

if (false != strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '.com')):
  header ('Location: ' . str_replace('.com.','de', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
endif;

but i think that mod_rewrite would be better. for help on that please check out the apache forums on this site.

 

[lagc]

Thanks jpadie,

Could you help me some more please, as I'm not sure sure how to use that code properly.

I have created a button on each page in the form of a german flag, and when clicked it needs to use that code to direct the customer to the German page equivelant.

Could you show me please.

Thanks

 

[jpadie]

ah. I see.

i think you should do something like this then.

<form method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];?>" name="pageLink"?><input type="hidden" name="lang" value="de" /><input type="img" name="langSelect" src="path/to/german/flag" />
</form>

then create a page called langSelect.php

if (isset($_POST['langSelect']) && $_POST['langSelect'] == 'de')):
  if (false != strpos($_POST['pageLink'], '.com')):
    header ('Location: ' . str_replace('.com.','de', $_POST['pageLink']);
    exit;
  endif;
endif;

and at the top of every page that you wish to be language dependent add this code

<?php require_once '/path/to/langSelect.php'; ?>