Short url...

[jgraham]

I searched through the forums, but couldnt find any solution to have short urls for members like http://www. mysite . com / nameofmember
is there any way to do this?


Thanks

[Michael P]

It's been talked about before, but the biggest limitation is that most forums allow spaces (or special characters) in peoples names. For example "Michael P" would not form a valid URL as described above and depending on if there are others with the same name, but when you take out the spaces and non-URL characters may end up with the same URL string.

I've been looking into possible code alternatives while some people have used htaccess rewrites to accomplish this.

[jgraham]

If i restrict usernames in my site so they dont contain spaces, non-url characters...

can you help me out with a code to accomplish this?

Im just switched from albinator to photopost and all my users had this feature before, so that is why i ask...

thanks