Help with URL rewriting using PHP only?

[Atashi]

Can anyone please provide me a example and explanation of URL rewriting with PHP only.

I already tested using .htaccess and it works fine.

What I want to achieve is to rewrite a URL without using a .htaccess. 
I read some blogs but still can't understand a bit. 

 

[requinix]

No .htaccess, or other means of affected Apache, means your URLs all have to point to an actual PHP file. However you can basically treat one like a directory and it will still work. For example,

/blog/post.php/2013/10/blah-blah-blah

will execute the blog/post.php script (if it exists), and from there you can look in $_SERVER at either

a) the REQUEST_URI to give you the whole path and query string ("/blog/post.php/2013/10/blah-blah-blah"), or

b) the PATH_INFO to get everything after the filename ("/2013/10/blah-blah-blah")

[Atashi]

Can you provide an example so I can understand what you post much better. thx for the responds anyway.

by the way, the url is declared thru a form
for example

 

<form action="thevery/long/url.php>

i need to change the url to shorter one. thx agan

[iarp]

URL Rewriting isn't strictly achieved through PHP alone, it's the web server that accepts and processes the URI request that needs to know what to do with the URL it has been given by the user.

 

If you want to shorten /thevery/long/url.php to /my-custom-url you need to tell the web server how to process that.

 

If you wanted a basic example, here is something similar that WordPress uses for Apache servers

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

It sends all requests to /index.php where you can then process the URL yourself, through PHP, by accessing the URI through $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

[requinix]

i need to change the url to shorter one.

Move the file.

[Atashi]

URL Rewriting isn't strictly achieved through PHP alone, it's the web server that accepts and processes the URI request that needs to know what to do with the URL it has been given by the user.

 

If you want to shorten /thevery/long/url.php to /my-custom-url you need to tell the web server how to process that.

 

If you wanted a basic example, here is something similar that WordPress uses for Apache servers

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

It sends all requests to /index.php where you can then process the URL yourself, through PHP, by accessing the URI through $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Hi thx for the reply, I believe your example is the codes for .htaccess right? 

 

[iarp]

Correct