mod rewrite and php

[dflow]

i want to create friendly urls like this

 

example.com/CountryName/CityName

 

 

my url looks like this:

example.com/page.php?CountryID=12&CityName=23

 

whats the best approach ?

 

 

 

[trq]

There should be plenty of examples within this board, have you had a look around?

[jmajeremy]

Well, I think the simplest method is to just send all requests to the respective page, and let PHP to the parsing of the URI. You'll have to come up with a regex for that.

 

In PHP you could do something like

<?php
$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$params = explode("/", $uri);

You now have all the parts of the URI in an array. It would look something like this:

array {
            [0] => 'http:'
            [1] => ''
            [2] => 'example.com'
            [3] => 'CountryName'
            [4] => 'CityName'
}

 

You can see how with the knowledge that REQUEST_URI will always contain what the user actually requested, and not the real path to the script, you can parse the URI and get the information you want out of it.

[dflow]

There should be plenty of examples within this board, have you had a look around?

i have actually looked

havent found an answer for this

changing the numeric id to the name

[premiso]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/?$ page.php?CountryID=$1&CityName=$2 [L]

 

Should work. But may not yeild the exact results you want, as anything even say example.com/sub/realdir/ will get redirected as well.

[dflow]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/?$ page.php?CountryID=$1&CityName=$2 [L]

 

Should work. But may not yeild the exact results you want, as anything even say example.com/sub/realdir/ will get redirected as well.

cool this works

i still have the CityID as a number

so the url looks like this

amsterdam-tourist-sites/1.html

regarding seo is this a good move

keeping the number?

[trq]

You'll probably want to revert to using descriptive (name) based values.

 

This is as simple as changing all your queries to search by name instead of numbers.

[dflow]

You'll probably want to revert to using descriptive (name) based values.

 

This is as simple as changing all your queries to search by name instead of numbers.

that's a pain

 

[trq]

Yes, in your situation it would be, which is why these things should be developed as you go.

[dflow]

this should be correct ,no??

RewriteRule ^city/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\.html /city.php?CityName=$1 [L]

[dreamwest]

this should be correct ,no??

RewriteRule ^city/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\.html /city.php?CityName=$1 [L]

 

RewriteRule ^city/(.*)\.html city.php?CityName=$1 [L,QSA]