[Sam Granger]

Thought I'd share this code with you all since it took me a long time to figure out. <img src="http://www.webdevelopforum.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

<b>You need a host with wildcard subdomains turned on for this to work. Contact your host if this isn't already done, it isn't a hard setting to change.</b>

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

Options -MultiViews

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9]+)\.yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) _controller.php?username=%1&module=$1 [L,QSA]

Replace yourdomain with your domain name. The subdomain displays what ?username= returns so if you go to example.domain.com it displays _controller.php?username=example - however it doesnt show this, appears as the subdomain still. Going to example.domain.com/hi displays _controller.php?username=example&module=hi. If you bump into any problems, post here and I'll look into it .

Enjoy!

[paulOr]

ooooo iv been looking for something like this for along time! Thank you very much Sam

[Sam Asante]

Will try it sometime.
Can you recommend a host with Wildcard Subdomains turned on (and good uptime)?

[Sam Granger]

Sensehost enabled it for me no problem. Most hosts probably would be cool with it. Just contact them before and ask is my advice

[Sam Granger]

See the PHP below that I used with this project. Might come in handy!

CODE

<?php

/*
* @author Sam Granger
* @build 1.0.0
* @copyright ***********.com, 2008.
*/

require ('./static/cv_header.html');
require ('./_conf.php');

// Check for requests and clean 'em up!
$username    = mysql_escape_string($_GET['username']);    // Oi, so which profile are we trying to view then ey?
$module        = mysql_escape_string($_GET['module']);        // So you want to view a section of this profile then too?

// Begin getting all the contents to display!
$connection = new mysqli($data_server, $data_user, $data_password, $data_database);

if ($result = $connection->query("SELECT id, username, fullname FROM cv_users WHERE username = '$username'")) {

    while ($row = $result->fetch_object()) {
        echo '<h3><a href="http://'.$row->username.'.castverse.com">'.$row->fullname.'</a></h3>';
        echo '<p>Viewing: '.$module.'</p>';
    }

} else {
    echo "This user ($username) doesn't appear to exist.";
}

$connection->close();
// End getting all the contents to display!

require ('./static/cv_footer.html');

?>

[Diffraction]

Thanks for sharing this code.