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Lucius
Lucius

Reputation: 963

What regular expression can I use to pass GET variables via URL rewrite?

I know that I should pass variables through the structure of the url instead of passing them via GET, but I find myself in this situation where I already have a fixed URL structure, and I need to pass additional parameters that are needed only in certain particular cases, so are not always present in the request. Since regexp's are one of my weak points, I could use some help.. What I have is:

categories/10/category name.html?somevar=X&someothervar=Y

what I would need is:

RewriteRule ^categories/([0-9]+)/([^/]+).htmlwhat should I put here?$ somepage.php?section=cat&id=$1&name=$2&somevar=$3&someothervar=$4

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

kapa
kapa

Reputation: 78691

If you only need them in certain cases, don't rewrite them, but use the QSA modifier (Query String Append), which will let you keep the additional query string stuff.

Like:

RewriteRule ^categories/([0-9]+)/([^/]+).html$ somepage.php?section=cat&id=$1&name=$2 [QSA]

Using this, if categories/10/categoryname.html?somevar=X&someothervar=Y is requested, you will get the rewritten query vars as well as the additional ones in your app.

Upvotes: 1

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