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Sheldonbrax
Sheldonbrax

Reputation: 320

unique urls for products in an e-comm website PHP

I'm not sure if this is a stupid question or not but I am creating an e-comm website at the moment which I would like to make as professional and secure as possible.

I want each product to have its own unique url for accessibility purposes but I'm not sure how to do this as right now I am using a GET variable to create unique pages dynamically.

It looks like this:

example.com/product?product=1

As you can see, this isn't a very accessible way to separate products (Using unique ID's) and it's also not very safe in terms of using with a database.

What I am wanting the unique url's to be like:

example.com/products/unique-product-name

I want to be able to use url's like this while still keeping the php simple for database use.

How can I do this quickly and simply without having to create individual pages for each product??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (3)

user3864045
user3864045

Reputation: 17

I already worked on for that type of many project. Please add in your .htaccess file 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule  ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    products.php?alias=$1    [NC,L]

and used anchor tag on like this

<a href"products/<?php echo $variable['alias']; ?>">product name</a>

Upvotes: 0

chiwangc
chiwangc

Reputation: 3577

First of all, you need to have a unique alias field for each product in your DB, so that you can access your product via GET method like this:

www.example.com/product.php?alias=YOUR-ALIAS

And then you can use mod_rewrite to map www.example.com/products/YOUR-ALIAS to the above link.

In order to do this, you have to create a text file called .htaccess (NOTE: there is no file extension, the fullname of the file is .htaccess) with the following rules in it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^products/(.+)$  /product.php?alias=$1 [L]

You then have to upload the .htaccess and product.php files to the root of your server.

Upvotes: 4

Sheldonbrax
Sheldonbrax

Reputation: 320

I fixed the issue and got the same instance working on all 3 of my testing servers. For 2 of them to work I simply had to take the leading forward slash out of chiwangc's answer:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^products/(.+)$  product.php?alias=$1 [L]

I'm not 100% sure why this is the case only some of the time.

Upvotes: 1

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