Friendly Url question

elivate

I know this has been discussed and I have read a lot of articles about it, but I am still a bit confused by how this will work for a truly dynamic site...

I am building a site that will have a huge number of items that will be broken down in 3 categories. Ideally I want my urls to reflect the actual name of the item as well as the category, so there will be thousands of possibilities when trying to rewrite the url.

I looked into Wordpress and the code that goes into their .htaccess file and it might be a start for what I am trying to do, but I am still not sure. Here is what they have:

BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

END WordPress

So I was wondering how I can customize this to allow for a three level url (if that is how to describe it... )

For example, the url that needs to be rewritten might be this:

page.php?category=bicycles&type=Mountain&brand=Fuji

And I would want it to be this:

/bicycles/Mountain/Fuji

But it could also be:

/bicycles/Road/Trek

/sunglasses/Sport/Bolle

etc...

So I am really trying to deal with a ton of possibilities and use just one template...

Any suggestions? Maybe a tip or point me to a clear, concise article that is easy to follow along for a newbie?!?

Thanks!

dagon

the rewrite rule posted will work for any length or url site.com/one/two/three/four....

elivate

dagon;10878138 wrote:
the rewrite rule posted will work for any length or url site.com/one/two/three/four....

Ok, thanks I did not understand that...

so how do I know what REQUEST_FILENAME is? and would I need to add another line to handle the third level?

dagon

$url_split = preg_split("/\//i", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

then use the url_split array