/dev/movabletripe » PHP http://movabletripe.com Making up launch dates since 1982 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:39:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 PHP redirect script http://movabletripe.com/archive/php-redirect-script/ http://movabletripe.com/archive/php-redirect-script/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:25:39 +0000 Adam http://movabletripe.com/archive/php-redirect-script/ When developing and/or designing websites for clients, I often use a quasi versioning system to keep track of older copies of their respective projects. For example, if I often create a repository for all of my development such as http://mybusiness.com/clientname and all subsequent revisions of the project in directories reflecting their version number (http://mybusiness.com/clientname/1/ and http://mybusiness.com/clientname/3/ and so on).

The beauty of this is that when a client inevitably changes their mind regarding an alteration to a design/feature, all of my original work is not lost, and I can easily refer them back to previous revision for comparison.

Below is a simple PHP snippet I use to redirect the user to the latest version of the project. This saves them having to know what number the revisions is up to, and can merely navigate to http://mybusiness.com/clientname and be taken to the most recent trunk.

<?php
$host  = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri  = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\');
$revision = '1/';
header("Location: http://$host$uri/$revision");
exit;
?>

Save this as index.php in your top level directory, and simply change the variable $revision to reflect the current version.

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