title: How does Facebook make personal named pages?
body: <p>Hey guys hope all is good and here's my question: When you click on a Facebook profile the address bar shows the URI named after the account's owner, for example:</p>
  
  <p>Name: John Smith
  Facebook URI: facebook.com/john.smith</p>
  
  <p>The question is, how is this achieved to dynamically name a page based on the name of each user. I do not believe Facebook would make a directory named after each user and then add the same html, css, scripts etc in every directory... So if I decided to make a member's page in PHP how would I go about naming it depending on the user's name?</p>
  
  <p>All constructive answers welcome and have a nice day.</p>