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I am fully versed in how to get, and clean the vars in a $_GET and $_POST, and I understand that $_REQUEST listens for both GET and POST's.
I understand that the GET is www.somesite.com?GET=MYVAR, but my question is this. Can you take: www.somesite.com/MYVAR and put the subpage into a var, as apposed to using the ?GET=MYVAR
In PHP
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Assuming you're using Apache, you would use the mod_rewrite module with an .htaccess file. There are tons of tutorials you can find via Google once you know the right words :)
Yes, but this is actually less dependent on PHP and more dependent on your webserver. It's called rewriting URLs. If you're using Apache, it's mod_rewrite you'll need to look into.
Here's an example for nginx using a rewrite rule:
rewrite ^([^/]+)(/)?$ /index.php?var=$1;
Then you'll be able to access it using
$_GET['var'];
Have you had a look at:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
and then split it (e.g. explode | preg_split)?
Typically this is done using the mod_rewrite as mentioned in the other answers. But you can also get the url from the $_SERVER variable and parse the resulting string.