httacces Rewrite URLs - .htaccess

Question

I wanted to rewrite some urls from
www.example.ro/women_shoes.php to www.example.ro/women-shoes/
and with pagination looks like
www.example.ro/women_shoes.php?page=1 to www.example.ro/women_shoes/pagina-2/
www.example.ro/men_shoes.php to www.example.ro/men-shoes/
with pagination like the first one
www.example.ro/sandale_barbati.php to www.example.ro/sandale-barbati/
and so on..
for the last example i tryed
RewriteRule ^sandale-barbati/pagina-([0-9]+)/ /sandale-barbati.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^sandale-barbati/?$ /sandale_barbati.php?$
but i need to write that for every page...
is there a way to do that automaticaly for all pages ?
thanks

Answer 1

If you always use the same naming for all your pages, this will work:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)([-_]){1}([a-zA-Z]+)/pagina-([0-9]+)/$ $1_$3.php?page=$4
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)([-_]){1}([a-zA-Z]+)/$ $1_$3.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/pagina-([0-9]+)/$ /$1.php?page=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/$ /$1.php
You can surf to /women_shoes/ and it will be the /women_shoes.php page.
You can surf to /women-shoes/ and it will be the /women_shoes.php page.
You can surf to the /shoes/ and it will be the /shoes.php page.
I hope this has met all your requirements and was of sufficient help to you. For future reference, the website http://www.regular-expressions.info/ is very handy when dealing with RegEx (such as .htaccess rewrite rules).