form action wiht mod_rewrite urls

cretaceous

is there a reliable method to use a form action on a site with mod rewrite?

if I put "action = $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]" or "action = #"

then I lose the friendly URL but the page works and picks up my other variables

however if I use the rewritten url I cant pass my variables

both POST and GET seem to have same problem

I'd prefer to keep the rewritten url

thanks for any pointers

bpat1434

If the rewrite is working properly, then it shouldn't make a difference which url is used. Do you have some code you can show us?

cretaceous

which gives a url of

http://mysite.com/Contracts/Approved-providers/113

but any hidden or other query string type variables dont get interpreted whether I use GET or POST

I think my mod_rewrite is not correct:

RewriteRule ^{Contracts/([^{/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$}} index.php?sector=1&pg=$2&qs=$3 [NC,L]

friendly url is
mysite.com/Contracts/irrelevant pagename/123/var=22

what I then tried to do was do a request on "qs" (third term in mod_rewrite) hoping that would contain anything after my second forward slash

then I could use Php to explode that value to put it back into variables so getting any number of following query string type values

but perhpas I should be using QSA in the mod rewrite which (maybe) will just parse any appended values normally and put them into $REQUEST or $GET or $_POST as appropriate ?

in the actual mod_rewrite there are two following conditions to deal with
i) string with no query values
ii) string with no page number
but I dont think they are relevant here

(and to further complicate it there are then five sets of these three line rules to cover the five 'sectors' of the site)

am I making sense?

bpat1434

Seems to me that your original url doesn't have a trailing "/" so your rewrite rule will never match.

Let me break it down for you:

http://mysite.com/Contracts/Approved-providers/113

RewriteBase The base of the URL rewrite (typically the directory you're .htaccess is in, in this case, the site's document root).

The rest of that is the pattern we're trying to match

Here's your rewrite:

Contracts/color=purple[/color]/color=blue[/color]/color=gray[/color]

The silver / gray (silver / gray) color is the only optional item in that regex. The trailing slash before the gray part is missing from your url.

Try adding the "/" to the end of the url OR making the "/" optional too.