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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 2851

Url rewriting but keeping PHP backend the same?

Let's say I have this URL: http://mydomain.com/app/editor/?id=59500

I would like to have this url to instead show the following in the browser address bar: http://mydomain.com/app/editor/59500

...but have the PHP page ("http://mydomain.com/app/editor/index.php") remain the same. In otherwords, I still want to have this page to be able to execute $_GET['id']; and return "59500".

Would I use regex in HTACCESS for this? Any advice on the best approach and an example would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 24

Answers (2)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

Try adding these rules to the htaccess file in the /app/editor/ directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /app/editor/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+app/editor/(index\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^ %1? [L,R]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ index\.php?id=$1 [L]

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Webb
Andrew Webb

Reputation: 132

You want to use a .htaccess rewrite for this. You can make the redirect happen only when the URL ends with a number (to avoid redirecting index.php).

The \d+ gets all digits, and the /? will allow URLS that either have a slash after the ID or not.

Something like:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteRule ^app/editor/(\d+)(/?)$ app/editor/index.php?id=$1
</ifmodule>

Upvotes: 1

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