Friendly urls and .htaccess

[dhimok]

Hello everyone.

 

Do you know a good advanced guide about mod_rewrite and friendly urls?

 

I am using the code below in my .htaccess file. It works very well as long as I use one querystring. Sometimes I need to pass many values thru querystrings and the page gets vulnerable. Any one knows a good way doing this

 

the urls I get are like:

1.html

2.html

..

5.html

etc.

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ index.php?c=$1[L]

 

I dont know if I was clear enough but Thanks anyway

[ToonMariner]

can you give an example of what you are trying to do?

 

I personally use this method (with a few mods)...

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/

[dhimok]

Lets say that my friendly url looks like this:

12.html

 

is it possible to ad ?action=something after that?

12.html?action=something

[dhimok]

I have to pages

 

index.php?c=books

index.php?c=books&k=foreign

 

How can use friendly urls so that both urls work?

[ToonMariner]

well friendly urls are clear of ? = and & (and if you are strict - any non-alphanumeric bar '/')

 

so what you want to achieve is something like

 

http://www.yoursite.com/books/foreign

 

that way you can use

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php [NC, L]

 

then in your index.php

 

$url = strip_tags($REQUEST_URI);
$url_array = explode("/",$url);
array_shift($url_array);

 

$url[0] will be 'books' and $url[1] will be 'foreign'.

 

use the resulting values of the array to control the flow of your scripts.

 

so you can use something like

 

switch($url[0])
{
case 'films':
  // do film stuff.
  break;
case 'plays':
  // do play stuff.
  break;
case 'books':
  // do book stuff.
  break;
default:
  // show home page.
}

[dhimok]

What If i want to use extension  .html or any other one