How To Handle Xx Amount Of Slashes In A Rewritten Url.

[Johns3n]

Hello PHPFreaks

 

Been a long time since i've been here last time! (hopefully it means that i'm getting better

 

However!

 

I'm playing around with "new" technology the mod_rewrite for the .htaccess file.

 

I'm writting a php app where the url has 2 parameters.

 

example.com?path=this/is/a/path/to/this/&slug=page

 

NOW my dilemma is that my .htaccess rules work IF there is NO / (slash) in the ?path= var (since I separate the 2 vars at a /).

 

my question is now! (bear in mind here that i'm a ROOKIE at .htaccess rewriting) how do i go about in the .htaccess file to make it reconize that whatever comes after the last slash the $2 variable and everything is $1 - even if there is no $path defined in the url?

 

BTW! I'm not looking for free handouts and do my coding here! I'm willing to learn here but just need pointers!!

 

I've pasted my .htaccess file here:

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$ /index.php?slug=$1&type=$2&view=$3&action=$4 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$ /index.php?slug=$1&type=$2&view=$3 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$ /index.php?path=$1&slug=$2 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ /index.php?slug=$1 [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

 

Thanks in advance

Edited December 22, 2012 by Johns3n

[requinix]

So

example.com?path=this/is/a/path/to/this/&slug=page

is the destination URL, and that's supposed to be the result of going to

example.com/this/is/a/path/to/this/page

Right?

[Johns3n]

Indeed!!

 

But it could also just be:

 

example.com/a/path/this/is/page

 

or even

 

example.com/path/to/page

[Johns3n]

It could also even just be:

 

example.com/page

 

So it just uses the ?slug=page variable and the first ?path=something variable is just defined as:

 

if(!isset($_GET['path'])){ $_GET['path'] = NULL; }

 

in the PHP app.

[requinix]

But /path/to/page will also match your

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$ /index.php?slug=$1&type=$2&view=$3 [L,PT]

It's ambiguous.