How to get _REQUEST // _GET value with no file name

[saariko]

Hi,

What I am trying to do is transfer a _GET value to a default page, with as little URL naming as possible.

 

I'll explain - I have a processing php file/page that gets values from the _GET of the URL. The output is a new redirect to an alternate page. The processing function takes the value: id=XXX, and according to the id  redirects to XXX.

 

What I am trying to do is:

1. not give the file name in the original address - succesfully done that by editing .htaccess DirectoryIndex directive.

2. transfer only 1 value in the calling address.

 

So, if I call: www.site.com/a/[VALUE]  I want my processing page to read the [VALUE]  How can I do that?

 

First trying to echo the vlaue (if I will be able to do that I am ok)

<?php
// Get a file into an array.  In this example we'll go through HTTP to get
// the HTML source of a URL.

        foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $value){
                echo $value . "<br>";//You can for mat with HTML right here too
        }

 

[Yesideez]

As far as I'm aware you'd need to perform a mod_rewrite in the htaccess file to rewrite the URL.

[saariko]

Cheers for the quick reply, here are the settings I am trying on my .htaccess

 

  RewriteBase /
  Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/a/*$) [NC]
  RewriteRule a/([0-9]+) /a/p.php?id=$1 [L]

 

I am trying to rewrite from: http://www.domain.com/a/VALUE 

to

http://www.domain.com/a/p.php?id=VALUE

 

however, it's not working. any ideas why ?

 

appreciate your help

[saariko]

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First, if anyone can move this to the MOR_REWRITE, i will appreciate it. I don't want to double post.

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,50.0.html

 

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Ok, I am still strugling on this, here is my last conf.

 

My .htaccess is located on my root, and with the following tries (they are accesssed, because if for instance I will rewrite to: www.cnn.com  it will work)

 

  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^a/(.*)$ a/p.php?id=$1 [R=301,L]

 

 #  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
#  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301]
#  RewriteRule ^a/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ a/p.php?id=$1 [NC]

 

Do I need to move the .htaccess to my /a/ directory? and change the rules?