how do websites do this index.php?something=somepage
<p>i've seen alot of php based websites where no matter where you navigate your stuck at the index.php and some random parameters are passed in the url. and when i take a look at an open source version who does the same the index.php has a bunch of includes in them</p>

<p>whats a basic way i can do the same thing? does this include mod rewrite?</p>

<p>thanks</p>
