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Roberts Lacis
Roberts Lacis

Reputation: 23

htaccess get the first directory of a link

I am currently working on a php website and I am pretty unexperienced with htaccess rewrite rules and conditions. My question would be how could I get only the first directory from a link?

So for example I have a link "example.com/page1/page2/?something=something" and I need the output to be page1 so I can redirect it to index.php?p=page1

And also what would I do to get the output of "page2" or "?something=something"? So in this case I would redirect it to index.php?p=page1&ap=page2&something=something

I know that I could theoretically use:

RewriteRule ^page1/page2$ index.php?p=page1&ap=page2

But in this case I can't predict what page1 and page2 will be, so assume it's like a variable:

RewriteRule ^{somevariable}/{someothervariable}$ index.php?p={somevariable}&ap={someothervariable}

And in this case the output would be "index.php?p=page1&ap=page2".

I tried to search for this on web but I didn't really know what exactly to search for.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 119

Answers (1)

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 6148

You can indeed use RewriteRule to parse the URL...

RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.*)/?$ /index.php?p=$1&ap=$2 [L,QSA]

^               : Match the start of the string
 (.+?)          : Match any character one or more times; non-greedy
      /         : Match a slash
       (.+)     : Match any character one or more times
           /?   : Optionally match a slash
             $  : Match the end of the string

L               : Stops processing rules
QSA             : Append the original query string

Example

http://www.somewebsite.com/page1/page2?id=1435

print_r($_GET);

/*

Array
(
    [p]  => page1
    [ap] => page2
    [id] => 1435
)

*/

Upvotes: 1

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