profile username in URL instead of user ID

Question

Hi I would like to ask how to change the URL of a certain page like

--> http://www.domain.com/?id=1 to http://www.domain.com/username

I would like to ask a simple yet secured step to come up this idea.

I am using php.

Thank you.

Answer 1

If your asking about URL re-writing... then give this a go.

http://www.addedbytes.com/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/