URL Rewriting

Sharif

Hi all,

I've been away from PHP and web programming for such a long time, I need help on learning the new technologies. Right now I am trying to optimize my website for search engines, and people told me to use mod_rewrite.

That's good and all.. but all the tutorials I read make no sense, so I thought I'd come to the one place where I can get help I understand!

Basically I am trying to turn this:
news.php?id=123

To:
news.php/123 (and if possible, "news/123/Title-Of-Article").

Please help.

Kudose

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/0.php

RewriteRule ^/news.php/([0-9]+)[/]?([-_A-Za-z]+)?$ news.php?id=$1&title=$2

I think that is a good regex ...

Sharif

Maybe I did something wrong but to test, I went and pasted the code you gave me in my .htaccess file. Then tried to load www.mydomain.com/news.php/123 but I just got a 404 error 🙁

Kudose

Try:

RewriteRule ^/news.php/([0-9]+)$ news.php?id=$1

Kudose

RewriteRule ^/news/([0-9]+).php news.php?id=$1

going to

mydomain.com/news/123.php

Sharif

Ok if I use

RewriteRule ^/news/([0-9]+).php news.php?id=$1

... what happens when you want to go to just news.php?

Would it be

mydomain.com/news/

or mydomain.com/news.php ?

Kudose

Should be news.php, but you should try it.

Sharif

Ok I found a really good way to get my URL's to be like:

http://www.domain.com/page/123/

Basically in my .htaccess, I do:
<Files page>

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

</Files>

For every file that has to be affected. And this works great too.

To get the URL into usable variables, I do:
$URL = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);

I am wondering, how can I set the $GET variable to use the variables in $URL's array, so I don't have to change every line of code I use $GET in.