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Seamus Campbell
Seamus Campbell

Reputation: 73

How do I convert a PHP query string into a slash-based URL?

I am a pretty skilled programmer, but when it comes to RegEx and rewriting, I am a total n00b. I want to convert a URL from 

http://www.example.com/lookup.php?id=1

to

http://www.example.com/lookup/1/item/

where "item" refers to the name of an item in a database that is being looked-up.

I'm using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to convert the URLs so they are SEO friendly.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5781

Answers (3)

levi
levi

Reputation: 2144

Simple .htaccess example:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^lookup/([a-z0-9\-]+)/item/?$ /lookup.php?id=$1
</IfModule>

This will match any alphanumeric (also will recognise dashes) string of any length as the 'id'. You can limit this to just numeric by changing the regex to ([0-9]+).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^lookup/([a-z0-9\-]+)/([a-z0-9\-]+)/?$ /lookup.php?id=$1&view=$2
</IfModule>

This one will match /lookup/123/some-text/ to /lookup.php?id=123&view=some-text

Upvotes: 4

Thiago Belem
Thiago Belem

Reputation: 7832

Take a look on htaccess rewrite urls! :)

Here's your example:

RewriteRule ^lookup/(\d+)/(.*)$ /lookup.php?id=$1&name=$2

When you access lookup/123/my-product/, it'll call the lookup.php?id=123&name=my-product file internally.

Upvotes: 2

Tim Dorr
Tim Dorr

Reputation: 4931

Do you want to redirect from the old URL to the new? Or are you looking to read in those "friendly" URLs and then have them behave like the old URL?

If it's the latter, try taking a look at Net_URL_Mapper as a way to parse and redirect those links fairly easily.

Upvotes: 0

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