RewriteRule WITH query string

[mikejv]

Hi all,

I hope I explain this well enough - my apologies for any confusion.

My website uses a pretty basic "page and ID" system, and uses the following RewriteRule

RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.*?)/?$ view.php?page=$1&id=$2

So mysite.com/story/33 is actually pointing at mysite.com/view.php?page=story&id=33

The issue is, sometimes a page will have an extra query string; example mysite.com/story/33?code=123456

I can't seem to access "code" in view.php (print_r( $_GET ) only gives me "page" and "id"), and I don't know how to write a RewriteRule to put "code" in view.php?page=$1&id=$2&code=$3?

Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

[requinix]

The mod_rewrite docs list a number of flags that can be passed to RewriteRule. Like typically you should be using [L]ast to stop further rule processing, but it's not always required.

In your case you would want [QSA] - query string append. Because normally if you set your own query string in the replacement URL then mod_rewrite won't carry over any that were in the original source.

But if someone puts a ?page= or ?id= in the original URL, as in /story/33?page=1, then that will overwrite the one you're setting through the replacement. So I would avoid [QSA] in general and instead make use of the fact that PHP only cares about the last value:

RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.*?)/?$ view.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&page=$1&id=$2