[FM Discuss] need some php help

[adam hyde]

hi,

I want to start the new fm site next week but i have so much on i dont
have enough time to prepare everything for it. the need is getting
pressing.

One of the issues is that I want to redirect urls so that the old links
to chapters in current manuals still work. if we dont do this then all
links that are out there in the www will turn up 404 since the chapter
urls will be different. 

I need everyone that needs a old chapter url mapped onto a new url to be
able to visit a form online and  enter the old url into a textfield ,
then the corresponding new url into another textfield. then press
'submit'. at the end of each day or ondemand depending on how much time
i have, i will remap it all manually in the htaccess files. if i can
simply copy and paste an already formatted redirect command that would
make it fast...

is there anyone out there that can make a very simple php script to
help? it needs to do this:

have two fields:
old url:
new url:

[submit]

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the php file then takes the last two parts of each path:
oldurl = [manualname]/[oldchapter]

and 

newurl = [manualname]/[newchapter]


then does the following :
writes a text file with the right redirect command (I can send anyone
that wants this the syntax off list).

*and* writes the request onto the form at the bottom so people can see
which urls have already been requested to redirect


anyone ok to help me with this?

adam








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