URL Rewriting

Dysan

Hi,

I have a page at www.somesite.co.uk/new.php, that allows people to register with my website. Is it possible to use URL Rewriting, so that the url reads www.somesite.co.uk/new?

bpat1434

Not really. But it would seem what you'd like to do is have a central "bootstrapper" which would handle all requests and then include the appropriate file(s).

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* index.php

Then you can just look at the URL parts and see what you need.

<?php

// Get the page requested:
$request = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1); // remove beginning "/"

Then it's a matter of just taking the parts of the request apart and including the proper page:

$parts = explode('/', $request);

include($parts[0] . '.php');

Now, that's very basic, and without any verification, but it would essentially work.

jazz_snob

Dysan wrote:
Hi,

I have a page at www.somesite.co.uk/new.php, that allows people to register with my website. Is it possible to use URL Rewriting, so that the url reads www.somesite.co.uk/new?

You should be able to do that quite easily but before you go changing all your page links you should check that where you are hosting at it is OK to have the URL "not have a file extension" and by that I mean I found ONE hosting company (godaddy which sucks) were URL rewriting didn't work properly unless the last part of the URL had a file extension (.jpg, .php, etc).

Horizon88

Why wouldn't something like this work, bpat:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /new /new.php

So long as there's no directory named "new" it shouldn't be an issue, should it?

bpat1434

Well, I was thinking that if they wanted to do "/news" they'd also want other things, so rather than having 30 rewrite rules, you can just have 1 and handle everything PHP side. Plus, if someone mis-types and puts "newa" instead of news, they won't get a 404, but the PHP can take into account some odd name spellings, or give them hints.

But either method would work.