RewriteRule with ID -> Name

[Mortier]

Hello people!

I'm trying to make an .htaccess RewriteRule with an id-name association.

For instance you have an URL like this:
[code]
http://www.example.com/{news_article}.html
[/code]
and you want it to point to:
[code]
http://www.example.com/index.php?news={article_id}
[/code]

Any idea how I should realize this because {news_article} != {article_id}.
The {news_article} can be looked up in an MySQL table using PHP but how should I integrate that here? Or is there another way?

Thanks in advance,

Mortier

[wildteen88]

If your script uses an id to identify an article, you will need to change your script to identify the article with the article name instead. mod rewrite cant convert a name to a number. mod_rewrite is only used to create a user friendly url which masks the true URL.

[Mortier]

Ok then i'll have to do like ?news={article_name}

Well I don't have much choice I guess.
Thanks for yuor help.