Dynamic Mod Rewrite

[onlyican]

Been working in ASP and VFP (Visual FoxPro) for a while now and forgot loads of PHP

 

I am building a CMS driven site (in PHP)

I am allowing the user to add / edit / remove pages

 

I dont like pages like

?page=1

 

So I want to edit the .htaccess file so I can have the page name redirect to the page id

/ThisPage IS TO /index.php?page=3

 

Off course, Security reasons, I do not want to re-write my .htaccess file as this means changing chmods which is dangerous

 

There is a way of doing this PHP but I forgot, can someone remind me please.

 

Cheers

[GingerRobot]

It is possible to achieve something similar by parsing the $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] variable. However, there are limitations and mod rewriting is much more powerful.

[wildteen88]

I dont like pages like

?page=1

 

So I want to edit the .htaccess file so I can have the page name redirect to the page id

/ThisPage IS TO /index.php?page=3

 

Off course, Security reasons, I do not want to re-write my .htaccess file as this means changing chmods which is dangerous

You wont need to to alter your chmod permissions for mod_rewrite to work. However this can be archived using just PHP too, however you wont be able to hide the file name from the url, if you do it with PHP you're url's can only be like:

mysite.com/index.php/SomePageName/PageNumber/something_else

 

With mod_rewrite you can hide the filename (index.php).