johnywhy Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 hi, my site has header, footer, and sidebar which repeat on all pages. my goal is to contain the layout, header, footer, sidebar, and content all in separate files, and assemble them with php. problem-- getting pretty urls. my current structure has only 1 url. each subpage is loaded with a parameter in the url indicating what to load into the content area of the page. for example: About page url: http://mysite.org/master?contentpage=about Events page url: http://mysite.org/master?contentpage=events problem: i want these pages to have prettier urls for sharing. I mean, i want them to have simple urls which make them appear to be static html pages: http://mysite.org/about http://mysite.org/events so question, is there way to achieve that with my current structure? If not, is there a different structure which will achieve simple urls, yet still keep layout in one file, and header, footer, sidebar, and content in other files? my master page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Include Test</title> </head> <body> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" border=1> <TR> <TD class="headercell" colspan="3"> HEADER<br> <? include "header.php"; ?> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD class="leftsidebar">LEFT SIDEBAR <? include "leftsidebar.php"; ?></TD> <TD class="bodycell">BODY CONTENT <br> <? $pagename=$_GET["contentpage"]; ?> <? include $pagename.".php"; ?></TD> <TD>RIGHT SIDE-BAR<br> <? include "header.php"; ?> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD colspan="3">FOOTER</TD> </TR> </TABLE> </body> </html> yes, yes, i know tables are satan, you don't have to tell me. please keep replies to the question above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Tables are satan, you really should... oh wait... This is done with mod_rewrite, which is an Apache module that you must have activated. You will then simple need to create a .htaccess file for you site that contains the approriate rewrite rules. And then, and this is important, you update all links in your scripts to point to the 'pretty URL' (but don't change anything about how you are working with the $_GET variables, just the output of your links). A simple example of the sort of thing you would need for this task. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / #check not a real file or directory RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d #rewrite the url to where the actual file is RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ master?contentpage=$1 </IfModules> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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