well, you can do it a clean way or a messy way

The messy way:

just use GET to call user.php?user=username

the clean way, do the above step, and mess with the .htaccess using RewriteRule to make it get rid of the "user.php?username=". you can do this by creating a .htaccess file and throwing this in there:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule user/(.*)/ user.php?username=$1

if you would like to see this working, take a look at my test page I put up to make sure the rewrite rule worked correctly. You can edit the name by changing the address bar.

Hope this helps

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Jason Corradino
Applications Developer, Interactive Support - Tribune Technology
J2EE Development, Script Tinkering - Develop, Support, and Maintain Tribune websites.