Dynamic to Static URL in PHP

xeirus

Hi!
I'm trying to convert my site's dynamic URLs for the past 2 weeks but to no avail, I've tried several different ways but it doesn't seem to work.

My main requirement is that I want my dynamic URLs, for example, ...
http://www.domain.com/item_details.php?language=en&currency=USD&iid=600

To be shown as ...
http://www.domain.com/item_details-language_en-currency_USD-iid_600.html

Instead of using slashes ( / ) and being shown as ... (which is the problem in all the examples I found through Google) ...
http://www.domain.com/item_details/language_en/currency_USD/iid_600.html

If the slashes are used then all my images and included files stop working. So it is better for me to use underscores ( _ ) or hyphens ( - )

I can make the underscores/hyphens based URL work with the following .htaccess :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

rewriterule ^{item_details-([^{-]+)-([^&]+).html$}} /item_details.php?language=$1&currency=$2&iid=$3 [L]

</IfModule>

But the final problem which I'm still facing is that I don't know how to receive the values/variables for "language", "currency" and "iid" to use them on the item_details.php page.

Can someone please help?

Thank you very much!

Xeirus

steamPunk

you can use them as

$GET['language']
$GET['currency']
$_GET['iid']

xeirus

steamPunk,
Thank you for your reply.
Are you sure that'd work?
I tried it and it doesn't work.

Please help! Thanks!

Xeirus

xeirus

For others like me who would like to know how to get Dynamic to Static URLs in PHP with underscores ( _ ) and hyphens ( - ) instead of slashes ( / ) ... here's how our final .htaccess looks:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

rewriterule ^{item_details-([^{-]+)-([^&]+).html$}} /item_details.php?language=$1&currency=$2&iid=$3&keywords=$4 [L]

</IfModule>

Note that I've added description=$4 as it does 2 useful things
a) keywords=$4 will be holding all my keywords for that particular item that my bosses want the search engines and normal users to see.
b) iid=$3 was not showing up in the variables because if it is the last variable then the last variable gets thrown out with a ".html" at the end of it but with the "keywords" variable added behind it, one more hyphen ( - ) gets added which throws out the iid=$3 without the ".html" at its end

And here's how our final PHP code (to get the variables) looks like:

   $Server_Query_String1 = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; 
   echo $Server_Query_String1; 
   print '<br>'; 
   $Server_Request_URI1 = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; 
   echo $Server_Request_URI1; 

   $data = explode("-",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); 
   $language = $data[2]; 
   $currency = $data[4]; 
   $iid = $data[6]; 
   $keywords = $data[8]; 
   print '<br>'; 
   echo $language; 
   print '<br>'; 
   echo $currency; 
   print '<br>'; 
   echo $iid; 
   print '<br>'; 
   echo $keywords;

Xeirus.