Please help with URL rewrite

Jon7800

Hello everyone,

I've playing around with .htaccess mod rewrite stuff. I have got redirects to work fine and a few other things, but am having trouble with something that seems like it should be easy.

I want the following URL:
http://my.site.com/rates/?id=3

to be accessable and to stay in the address bar as:
http://my.site.com/rates/3/

I can't seem to get the proper syntax....please help!

Thanks very much.
Jon

batman

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10312219

bretticus

Rather then use mod_rewrite, you can use a Files directive to force a page to be parsed by php like this...

<Files "rates">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Assuming you have a php fiel with no extension named precisely 'rates', when you enter http://my.site.com/rates/3/, Apache will only get the contents of /rates and /3 is ignored. This allows you to parse the page URI and get /3 into your script.

list(,$id) = explode("/", $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);

Now you can add even more details to inject (if needed.) for example you could get 3, 4 from http://my.site.com/rates/3/4:

list(,$three,$four) = explode("/", $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);