Friendly url, how do I start?

__berfuzz

Hi!

If I have urls looking like this: http://www.mysite.com/?p=2&g=13&v=67
I'm looking for a way to rewrite it something like this: http://www.mysite.com/top_level/second_level/last_level
I thought it would be a good start to separate each variable(p,b,v). So now I've got a $url_array like this:

Array
(
    [0] => p=2
    [1] => g=13
    [2] => v=67
)

What would be the next step?

bretticus

Depending on your setup, you can have Apache rewrite the URL for you:

   # Nice looking URLs (no query string)
   # domain.com/category-name-1/ to domain.com/categories.php?name=category-name-1
    RewriteRule   ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$   categories.php?name=$1 [L]

In this example, you still get the value for "name" in your php like:

$name = $_GET['name'];

I got this from here btw

Just add additional '([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/' in your patten to match additional "levels." Keep in mind that the next match is rewritten with the $2 variable (and so on...)

The way I prefer to do this by is by forcing apache to parse a specific file as if it were a php page. The file has no extension and appears to be a subfolder in URL. Everything that comes after that is ignored by apache. However, you can access it via PHP and based on what is there, act accordingly.

Here's an example.

jib0

If you're running an Apache server, have a look to the mod_rewrite functionality of Apache.

__berfuzz

I redirected all faulty urls to index.php with .htaccess. From there I was able to get the pieces of the url-string and that many it simple to show right content on the site, with friendly urls.

Thanx folks!