rewrite rule in htaccess didnt work - .htaccess

Question

im trying to beautify my urls, my urls are like that
http://www.mysite.com/details.php?id=19&object=1
object=1 (videos) or object=0 (articles)
i want change this url to
http://www.mysite.com/videos/19
of course i make videos because i mentioned that when object =1 means videos
and when object =0
i want this
http://www.mysite.com/articles/19
I tried using this from some tutorials , but didnt work.nothing happen.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^videos/([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/$ details.php?object=$1&id=$2
and also how do i do the if condition with RewriteCond to check if object is 1 or 0 , if 1 then print videos else articles.
any help would be much apreciated.

Answer 1

It is better to use RewriteMap for your case here. Here is a sample how to use it:
Add following line to your httpd.conf file:
RewriteMap objMap txt://path/to/objectMap.txt
Create a text file as /path/to/objectMap.txt like this:
articles 0
videos 1
Add these line in your .htaccess file under DOCUMENT_ROOT:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /details.php?object=${objMap:$1}&id=$2 [L,QSA]
Advantage: With this setup in place, you can edit or recreate the file /path/to/objectMap.txt anytime you have a new object id mapping without any need to add new rules.
UPDATE: If you have no control over Apache config you will have to deal with multiple rewrite rules (one each of each object id mapping) like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+details\.php\?id=([^&]+)&object=1\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /videos/%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+details\.php\?id=([^&]+)&object=0\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /articles/%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^videos/([0-9]+)/?$ /details.php?object=1&id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^articles/([0-9]+)/?$ /details.php?object=0&id=$1 [L,QSA,NC]