Rewrite to different kinds of php conditions

[HDFilmMaker2112]

How would I got about using mod_rewrite to rewrite:

 

www.domain.com/index.php?home to www.domain.com/home

 

but also have

 

www.domain.com/index.php?profile=user_name to www.domain.com/username

[HDFilmMaker2112]

How would I got about using mod_rewrite to rewrite:

 

www.domain.com/index.php?home to www.domain.com/home

 

but also have

 

www.domain.com/index.php?profile=user_name to www.domain.com/username

 

I guess I should be clear about this part:

 

www.domain.com/index.php?profile=user_name to www.domain.com/username

 

That should be a variable $user_name, would be rewritten to the same value of the variable.

 

So:

 

www.domain.com/index.php?profile=John would be rewritten to www.domain.com/John

 

Could I just order them in order of importance, like this:

 

RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)(?:/(.*))?$ index.php?$1
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)(?:/(.*))?$ index.php?profile=$1

 

So things like /home would be caught first and see that value is in the php file. And when something isn't caught it would go to the next rewrite rule. I guess one issue is I have an else statement in the php file, so it will also return that, as opposed to going to the rewrite rule.

[HDFilmMaker2112]

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/?([A-Za-z0-9_]+)?/?$ /index.php?p=$1&edit=$2

 

Would the above match anything between a-Z and 0-9 with an optional / and an optional second "folder" with an optional /.