urgeng help:: How to use mode-rewrite in php?

sharafat

hello,

i want in my work that my links like www.abc.com/home.php?id=x&option=yz

must be shown as www.abc.com/home

by searching help about it i came to know that this can be done using mode-rewrite.

If any one have done this please help me, and send me some sample code abt it..

Thanks to all.

ManWithNoName

You could do this with PHP but I think you want to do this with Apache (mod rewrite) (or that other server software I never seem to be able to remember... its... name... What was I talking about again?)

Google for: Apache mod rewrite OR URL Rewriting OR (if PHP is what you like) php url rewrite (here is a interesting URI regarding that http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1844.html)

There are a lot of tutorials out there, so it depends which ones you like. I found some bookmarks I have laying around:

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting

Don't ask me to give you any examples, cause I never figured out htaccess rewrite stuff -- it was a headache.

kilgore_trout

alistapart.com had a good tutorial on this - don't know the link off hand but it should be easy to find.

If you want to do this strictly with php and not mod_rewrite at all you'll have to create a 'constructor' page and have all content filtered through it.

So for example, you'd have index.php. The code on that page would split the URL into an array and then determin the content based on that.

Your URLs would be something like: mysite.com/index.php/blog_article.

Does that make sense at all?

Chris

stolzyboy

yes, mod_rewrite is your friend, it'll allow you to use

www.abc.com/home/x/yz

but it will act just like

www.abc.com/home.php?id=x&option=yz

Obviously you have to write it to do that, but you can make it do that.

g0dzuki

In case you haven't figured it out yet - here's what I'm using on my blog (very similar to the listapart tutirial):

.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|php)$ index.php
</IfModule>

..which forwards all file types except those noted to index.php. Index.php then looks at the URL and determines if it's a direct request for a static file or dynamic content from a DB. The the URL is broken up into an array by "/".

index.php:


   $request = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if (file_exists($request) 
  && (is_file($request))
  && ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] != $request)
  && ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] != "/")) {

     include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

   } else {


  $url = strip_tags($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  $url = str_replace(" ", "_", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  $url = str_replace("%20", "_", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
  $url = strtolower($url);
  $url_array = explode("/", $url); 
  array_shift($url_array);

  if ($url_array[0] == "index.php") {
     array_shift($url_array);
  }


   }

Then just add some code to determin if $url_arry is dynamic content or a static file or whatever. Your URLs will end up like: example.com/your_content or example.com/your_content/more_content

Hope that helps!