Rewrite anything with underscore to equivalent with dash

[CroNiX]

Im doing some SEO optimization for a client and need to be able to change urls like:

http://www.domain.com/something/some_other/oh_blah

to:

http://www.domain.com/something/some-other/oh-blah

 

Basically change all underscores (_) to dashes (-) where ever they appear.

 

Thanks

[trq]

You'll really want to handle this on the application side not really with mod_rewrite. For instance, say your current rule is something like....

 

RewriteRule ^something/(.+)/(.+)/$ index.php?module=$1&action=$2 [L]

 

Then you could simply use (very simplified) .....

 

$module = str_replace('-', '_', $_GET['module']);
$action = str_replace('-', '_', $_GET['action']);
$obj = new $module;
$obj->$action();

 

In your code.

[CroNiX]

Thanks for taking the time thorpe.

 

All of this info is stored in the database, and I will be changing the underscores to dashes there, no prob.  The problem arises when someone has an old bookmark, I would like it to forward to the new one.

 

Thanks again!

[trq]

Bookmarks using underscores would still work using the above method.