rewriting PHP URL's

[seby]

Hello,

This is question is partly related to PHP, since i can't seem to get help anywhere else regarding it:

How do I make a url like: /articles/page.php?id=52&page=1

rewrite like

/articles/52/1

i know its with mod rewrite, any ideas how i can achieve this?

Thanks in advanced.

[kriek]

Use RewriteCond and RewriteRule | mod_rewrite

method no.1 (confirmed)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&;]*)
RewriteRule ^/$ [url]http://%[/url]{SERVER_NAME}/%1/? [R]
RewriteRule ^/([^\/]*)/?$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]

method no.2 (unconfirmed)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^.+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?$1 [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]

[seby]

thanks, do i have to put the directory before /index.php

??

or it doesn't matter?

[seby]

Hmmm, doesn't work. I have a url: /articles/comments.php?id=15

and when I try to go to: /articles/15 i get one of those "page cannot be displayed messages"

[sarahk]

I got 500 errors because my host didn't turn rewrite on as mentioned in an earlier article

I have

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^index.html$ /index.php
  RewriteRule ^esc/(.*)/(.*)$ /gothere.php?agent=esc&choice=$1
  RewriteRule ^ddr/(.*)/(.*)$ /gothere.php?agent=ddr&choice=$1
</IfModule>
ErrorDocument 404 /goto.php

I'm crap at ereg so can't help you there but I found a really good tutorial at: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910

and this is really indepth
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

just search on google with mod_rewrite and you get some good stuff to read.

[jayant]

Since your host doesn't have rewrite module, you may use the following thing:

delete the "articles" directory.

make a new php file named "articles" (without any extension) and place it at same place where you will place the articles directory.

Now:

$vars=explode("/",$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]);

$vars is an array.

$vars[0], $vars[1],... will contain the data.

$vars[0] is the id
$vars[1] is the page number

now $id=$vars[0]
$page=$vars[1]

now do whatever you did in page.php

before you try to see the output we must tell apache that it is a PHP file not a text file so use the following text and paste it in your .htaccess file

<Files articles>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

[seby]

Hmm, I got this working:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^articles/comments/([0-9]+)/?$ /articles/comments.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L] 

Which i can do /articles/comments/12

but i can't do /articles/comments/12/1

for the next page, any ideas?

[sarahk]

try

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^articles/comments/([0-9]+)/([0-9]?)$ /articles/comments.php?id=$1&page=$2

From my understanding it's the stuff in the () which get put into $1, $2 so in your code you had only one set of ().

good luck - i hope it's not the blind leading the blind!