Blog Rewrite is almost perfect

[unemployment]

I am using this for my blog url rewrite.

 

RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/.*$ /blog.php?post_id=$1 [L]

 

And that turns blog.php?post_id=3 into blog/3/title-seperated-by-dashes

 

The problem is that even if I just type blog/3/hokdohkd  the link will still work!  I only want the link working if the title is correct too.

[trq]

mod_rewrite has no way of checking to see if the title is correct, that us up to the logic in your blog.php script.

[cags]

If you are validating the 'title' part of the URL, then you might as well simply switch to using the slug to select from the database rather than the ID and drop the ID from the address altogether. The only reason to leave the id in there would be to allow multiple articles to have the same title, but this wouldn't be the best idea as it will be confusing/misleading for the end user.

 

This is all academic of course, as thorpe says, it's down to the script logic, not mod_rewrite.

 

If you really need to do it then you would (in your script) simply load the blog post, compare the title to that of the blog, and issue a 404 redirect with php.

[unemployment]

I figured it out guys.  Thanks for all the help.  You guys are great!