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Heretiiik
Heretiiik

Reputation: 59

PHP - url path as parameters

I'm using PHP for creating websites. To change the content of the page, there is script which includes different files based on a URL parameter, eg. http://example.com/index.php?page=news. This loads some news page. When I want to load an exact article, I add another parameter like this: http://example.com/index.php?page=news&id=18964, but it does not look nice.
I want to have my URLs look like they are on this website: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask, or in my case: http://example.com/news/18964.

I would look on google, but I don't know what to search for.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7217

Answers (1)

DanielM
DanielM

Reputation: 6676

There is a full guide to mod_rewrite here that looks pretty good. You have to scroll down a bit to get to url as parameters.

https://www.branded3.com/blog/htaccess-mod_rewrite-ultimate-guide/

If you don't want to mess too much with mod_rewrite and already have everything directed through a single public index.php (which is a good idea anyway). Then you can do something a little more dirty like this.

/**
 * Get the given variable from $_REQUEST or from the url
 * @param string $variableName
 * @param mixed $default
 * @return mixed|null
 */
function getParam($variableName, $default = null) {

    // Was the variable actually part of the request
    if(array_key_exists($variableName, $_REQUEST))
        return $_REQUEST[$variableName];

    // Was the variable part of the url
    $urlParts = explode('/', preg_replace('/\?.+/', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
    $position = array_search($variableName, $urlParts);
    if($position !== false && array_key_exists($position+1, $urlParts))
        return $urlParts[$position+1];

    return $default;
}

Note that this checks for any _GET, _POST or _HEADER parameter with the same name first. Then it checks each part of the url for a given key, and returns the following part. So you can do something like:

// On http://example.com/news/18964
getParam('news');
// returns 18964

Upvotes: 4

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