Topic: URL Rewriting / SEO Friendly URLs

[macvwin]

I need some help getting my URLs to work with URL Rewriting, so i have gotten so far as to the .htaccess rewrite. my url are as follow:

index.php?id=page

this translates into .htaccess like this, that is if i want my pages to look like subfolders:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index/id/(.*)/ index.php?id=$1


Now how do i go about coding my php file so it treats the above .htaccess rule into the browser, like this:

http://www.yourdomain/index/id/PAGE_HERE

P.S. I have gotten as far as this, but have no idea where to place this and how to do so in my php file?

Dynamically Generated URL

http://www.yourdomain.com/index/id/[VALUE]

I would really appreciate if anyone could help me do this..thanks

[GaMerZ]

you can get the value with [VALUE] = $_GET['id']

[macvwin]

Hi GaMerz, thanks for replying, at least someone is trying to help me.. .

Ok here is what i got on my php file and this is how my php navigation system looks like:

<?php switch($id) { default: include('home.php');
break; case "page1": include('page18767.php');
break; case "page2": include('page443545.php');
break; case "page3": include('page34535.php');
break; case "page4": include('page4234.php');

} ?>

Now how can i code the Rewrite part into this? Where does the [VALUE] = $_GET['id'] go?

thanks

[GaMerZ]

Code: [Select]

<?php
$id = intval($_GET['id']);
switch($id) { default: include('home.php');

break; case "page1": include('page18767.php');
break; case "page2": include('page443545.php');
break; case "page3": include('page34535.php');
break; case "page4": include('page4234.php');

} ?>


[macvwin]

thanks GaMerz, that worked fine but i run into a little problem, im using html but the extensions are .php and i have the index.php page in that i have this code:

<?php
$id = intval($_GET['id']);
switch($id) { default: include('home.php');

break; case "page1": include('page18767.php');
break; case "page2": include('page443545.php');
break; case "page3": include('page34535.php');
break; case "page4": include('page4234.php');

} ?>

and the htaccess worked fine to get the pages with .html extension with this in the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ $1.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [NC]

but, when i preview the page e.g.

http://domain.com/page1.html it doesnt appear within the index.php file but it opens in a new window and shows the content i dont want this as im using the "break; case "page1": include('page18767.php');" function, and i want it to appear within the index.php file just like before like "index.php?id=page" but this time page.html within the index.php..please help coz im finding it very confusing.

thanks

[GaMerZ]

Hmm, I think your htaccess rule is wrong, I am not that good with regex.

Code: [Select]

RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])\.html$ index.php?id=\$1 [QSA,L]If that does not work, you can try asking in sitepoint.com forums. I always ask for help there. lol

[macvwin]

hi again..thanks GaMerz for your help finally i got it working like a charm ..my version of my php is not working with the system i have as mentioned above dont know why though, so i went back to the default system php and it works great..thanks so much for your input.

[GaMerZ]

no problem =)

[here2help]

Thanks gamerz that really did help me, i had the same problem with my htaccess file access rule.
It's funny how a few years old thread like this can help out some one few years later and it probably will stay to help others in the next few decades