Rewrite url?

Beginners - Learning PHP
#1

Okay, I am looking on how to rewrite a url on my site, like:

http://www.site.com/index.php?id=8022

instead to be like:

http://www.site.com/8022

Any help?
Thanks!

#2

Assuming you’re using Apache, you can create a .htaccess file in the root directory with:

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

…this will redirect everything (that isn’t a real dir/file) to /index.php. Then in your index.php you can decide what to do with the request.

Does that help?

#3

Sort of, what would be the exact code to do what I want in the original topic, I dont have any experience in the .htaccess but I want it so that I can rewrite (i guess its called) the url to not require it to have all the extra in there, just everything after “index.php?id=”. Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks for the help though!

#4

Ok… so, once the .htaccess is in place, the web server is going to send all requests to index.php… so if your link pointed to example.com/this/is/a/test, the contents in index.php will be displayed.

Your index.php needs to read the URI (this/is/a/test). You get all this - I’m just recapping :wink:

This function will take the URI and split it into an array based on "/"s.
[php]
function getRequest()
{
$uri = strip_tags(strtolower(trim($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])));
$uri = explode(’/’, $uri);
array_shift($uri);

if ($uri[0] == 'index.php') {
    array_shift($uri);
}

}

//Usage
$array = getRequest();
[/php]

Now that you have an array, it’s really up to you and your data schema as to whats done… a very rudimentary example might be:
[php]

$array = getReqeust();

if ($array[0] == ‘8022’) {
// maybe query a data base to get article id #8022
} else if ($array[0] == ‘myclass’) {
// maybe instantiate a class
$myClass = new myclass();
} else if ($array[0] == ‘filename’){
// maybe include a file file
// include ‘./filename.php’;
} else {
//echo a value
echo 'You requested: ’ . $array[0];
}
[/php]

This is all called ‘routing’ by the way… and in a nutshell (though not a very pretty example), thats how it works.

#5

Wait… Im confused, wasn’t this suppose to be a .htaccess rewrite? I have heard of using it to rewrite the url…

I know how the ID of the page and run it as whatever I want, but it looks like your doing it in a complicated way, so Im looking for the .htaccess rewrite on how to do it.

Thanks for the help though!

#6

I see what you’re asking, you want a full mod_rewrite - no php code involved solution. Your question wasn’t very clear on that part… or i’m just retarded, who knows :-X

Do something like this:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]

Not tested…might need to play around with it but I think that’s right. Should rewrite any uri with index.php?id=### to /###/

#7

That wasnt right, but it helped with what I was doing, I got it with a little tampering!

Thanks!

-Improvizionz

#8

And after reading this and trying to apply to my site I don’t know what you tinkered to make it work?

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