a question on mod rewrite...

[listenmirndt]

RewriteRule ^article-title-one.html$ index.php?page=focus&id=775 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^article-title-two.html$ index.php?page=focus&id=772 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^Test-One$ index.php?page=browse&id=4 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^Test-Two$ index.php?page=browse&id=5 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^Test-Three$ index.php?page=browse&id=6 [NC,L]

this is what i am using right now, works great...
except i can imagine the file getting really long as i add more and more articles... is that a problem?

is there a better way to write this url rewrite htaccess file?

thanks!

[leatherback]

It is not a problem if the files gets long; Hundreds of lines are parsed in a split second. It is mainly unpractical for you.

you could consider parsing each URL straight to a single index.php where the called page is added as a variable:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?file=$1 [L,QSA]

then you take the $_GET['file'] variable in your script, and do a lookup in your database. Assuming the page name has some relation to what is in your database, that is. I think this is what e.g. wordpress uses.