htaccess file with the following:
RewriteRule ^home?$ index.php
This works great for rewriting the url of my home page. Users are able to post articles on my site so the url for all the various pages are as follow:
http://example.com/article.php?id=22
Let's pretend there are 1'000 articles how can I rewrite each article to something like this:
example.com/articleId/articleTitle
For example:
example.com/56732/How-to-bake-bread
Is it possible to extract the data of an article and use it to rewrite the article's URL?
I guess you're looking for that:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/(.+)?$ article.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
The first part of the regex ([0-9]+) captures the id in the url and is passed in the value passed in $1, if you wanted to use as well the (.+) part you could get it using the value in $2.
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Is there the opportunity to get content on one url from another url? like this:
test.com/dir1 shows content from query test.com/getinfo/index.php?q=dir1
or
test.com/dir2 shows content from query test.com/getinfo.php?q=dir2
I need that because i must do 50 urls like test.com/dir1 ../dir50 which has the same template but with some different content based on query and one virtual url with query is better than 50 real directories.
I tried do but couldnt! Thanks in advance!
If it is all on the same host, then have a look at mod_rewrite, which can do amazing things. Just make sure you read the manual through, as there are a lot of details to take in.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/dir1$ /getinfo/index.php?q=dir1 [L]
or more generically:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/dir(.*)$ /getinfo/index.php?q=dir$1 [L]
Can anybody advise how I can rewrite the following URL:
www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name
At the moment, it works fine (I use $_GET to grab the unique product name and use it on my page) but I would like to be able to use the following URL format to get the same outcome:
www.mydomain.com/products/product-name
I've seen a few similar examples on here but cannot get them to work with my situation.
This is how your .htaccess will look like,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) /products.php?product=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteEngine On this is used to turn on the rewrite engine.
^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) matches the URL like (www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name) where product name can be one or more of any combination of letters, numbers and hyphens.
And use that combination of letters in /products.php?product=$1 where $1 denotes the Product name.
I'm new to this, so i searched and could also do alot alone. But now there's a point I need your help. It's about a e-commerce page.
I want to redirect the old URLs from our brand pages to the new one.
The old brand URLs looks like:
http://www.domain.com/index.php?shop_q=empty&cid=0&man=32&pf=0.00&pt=10000.00&p=shop&action=showproducts&list=date_asc&limit=10
the only thing i need out of this long url is man=32, what stands for the manufacturer (brand) id.
the new URL looks like:
http://domain.com/brand/8_brand-name
So I want that the rule to redirect every url with man=32 in it to the new brand URL, even if there are more characters in the URL.
Thanks for your help!
Try adding these rules to the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)man=32($|&)
RewriteRule ^ /brand/8_brand-name? [L,R=301]
The condition's regex pattern, (^|&)man=32($|&), matches a specific query string parameter, and will match it no matter where in the query string it is.
I have an url that looks like:
/platforms.php?platform_id=xxx
where xxx is a number
I'm rewriting the URL inside the php application. So, for example the above url would look like:
/xbox/ or /playstation/
Now in .htaccess I have:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ platforms.php?platform_id=$1 [L,QSA]
However when I go to a platform page the GET url becomes /xbox/ or /playstation/ , instead of xxx.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Update:
Hi, the link is not relevant to my question. I've tried to reformulate what I am after for in the example bellow with better details.
Thanks for the answer and sorry for the bad explanation.
Yep, when I said GET url I was referring to $_GET["platform_id"] .
Basically I have an URL called
www.example.com/platforms.php?platform_id=1
In the above example $_GET['platform_id'] = 1.
In the actual php aplication I have a function (let's call it make_link ), with which I make the above URL output like:
www.example.com/xbox/ (since 1 is the id of the xbox platform)
Now in httaccess I also need a rewrite rule that will make accessing the URL work.
So I have :
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ platforms.php?platform_id=$1 [L,QSA]
This does make the rewrite work in the terms that I can access
www.example.com/xbox/
However on the newly accessed page, if I get $_GET['platform_id'], the value for it is xbox/ .
Thanks,
In a RewriteRule, $1 is a variable backreferencing the first regular expression (in your case: ([^/]+)).
So, whatever text forms that part of your URL is what will be stored in $1.
If you wanted to use the consoles' IDs, you'd have to make these IDs part of your URLs. If you don't want that, but if you want your pretty URLs to reflect the names of the consoles, you'll have to rewrite the query part of platforms.php?platform_id=$1 in your .htaccess file.
Instead of querying for IDs (?platform_id=$1), you'll have to query for the consoles' names, e.g. ?platform_name=$1.
Edit:
In your PHP file, you'd then use $_GET['platform_name']
I'm creating a frontpage for my website with a single form and input text, Google-style. It's working fine, however, I want to generate a pretty URL based on the input. Let's say, my input is called "id", and using the GET method of form, and the action defined to "/go/", on submission, the URL will be:
site.com/go/?id=whateverIType
and I want to change it to
site.com/go/whateverIType
I was thinking on Mod Rewrite, but if the user put something in the URL, like:
site.com/go/?dontwant=this&id=whateverIType&somemore=trash
I want to ignore the other variables but "id", and rewrite the rule.
What's the better way of get this done? Thanks in advance!
PS: I'm using CodeIgniter, maybe there's something I can use for it as well. I already have a controller for "go".
I'm not familiar with CodeIgniter, but you can try the following RewriteRule
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/go\/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]*)
RewriteRule (.*) /go/%1? [L,R]
The %1 references the regex group from the previous RewriteCond, and the trailing ? will strip the querystring from the redirected URL.
Hope this helps.
Mod_rewrite supports conditions and rules with RegEx, so you could have a rule that matched the ?id=XXXX, that would extract it from the URL (keeping the other parameters), and rewrote the URL accordingly.
However... I don't think you want to do this, because if you rewrite the URL to be /go/Some+Search+Query, you won't be able to pick it up with say, PHP, without parsing the URL out manually.
It's really tough to have custom, SEO-friendly URLs with user input, but it is technically possible. You're better off leaving in the ?id=XXX part, and instead, using mod_rewrite in the opposite approach... take all URLs that match the pattern /go/My+Search+Terms and translate that back into something like ?id=My+Search+Terms, that way you'll be able to easily parse out the value using the URL's GET parameters. This isn't an uncommon practice - Google actually still uses URL parameters for user input (example URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=test).
Just keep in mind that mod_rewrite rewrites the URL before anything else (even PHP), so anything you do to the URL you need to handle. Think of mod_rewrite as a regular expression-based, global "Find and Replace" for URLs, every time a page is called on the server. For example, if you remove the query string, you need to make sure your website/application/whatever accounts for that.
In application/config/routes.php
$route['go/(:any)'] = "go/index/$1";
Where go is your controller and index is the index action.
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
You can use something like this in your .htaccess if you aren't already:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]