[SOLVED] Product ID Question

[linstefoo]

If you go to my clients website: http://www.everythingdunes.com and hover over a product link, you get the normal "products.html?pid=##". What I would like to do is make that turn into something like this: "product-##.html" and have it bring up that product's information, while still referencing products.html as it's template. An example of what i'm talking about is at:

 

http://epenguins.mobilepenguins.com/product.html ( the template without the product info )

http://epenguins.mobilepenguins.com/product-15.html ( what i'm trying to do )

 

[sstangle73]

modrewrite

[linstefoo]

here the mod write I tried:

RewriteRule ^product-([^/?]*).html$    products.php?id=$1  [PT,L]

 

What's wrong with this? I added just a plain old "R" to it and it broke.

[sstangle73]

oo me and mod rewrite dont get along lol youll have to wait for someone else all i know is it will solve your problem

[marcus]

Try this:

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^product-([^-]*).html$ products.php?id=$1 [L]

[sstangle73]

^product-([^/\.]+).html/?$ /products.php?id=$1 [L]

you can try but like i said im not good at all with modrewrite haha

[Dragen]

RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+).html$ products.php?pid=$1 [L]

[linstefoo]

Tried all of these and thanks for the help, but it just doesn't seem to be working

EXAMPLE:

http://everythingdunes.com/product-1.html

 

Here is exactly what I use in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([^/?]*).html$ /index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&page=$1 [PT,L]

RewriteRule ^product-([0-9.]+).html$ /index.php?page=products?pid=$1 [L]

 

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Dragen]

try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/?]*).html$               /index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&page=$1               [PT]
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9.]+).html$       /index.php?page=products?pid=$1 [L]

I removed the first L, because it means last and stops anymore rewrites from happenning. Not sure what PT means though..

[linstefoo]

PT stands for Pass Through. I discovered that if I delete the .html$ and just go like that, it comes up.

 

http://everythingdunes.com/product-1

 

This is quite interesting. Any ideas on why it's acting funny?

[marcus]

Try this:

 

RewriteRule ^product\-([^-]*)\.html index.php?page=products&pid=$1 [L]

[Dragen]

not always. Try putting id as 2 and it doesn't work.

It could be that it's having conflict with the first re-write. Try removing the first re-write and see what happens.

[marcus]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products-([^-]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=products&pid=$1 [L]

[linstefoo]

I found that it is conflicting with the original mod-rewrite. I realized that I can rewrite it to look like so, it works:

RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+).htm$      /index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&page=products&pid=$1  [L]

 

Thanks to all of those who helped and thank you Dragen for suggesting the mod-rewrite conflict.

 

[Dragen]

something that you could do which may work (and enable the first re-write to work as well) is simply switch the order they're in so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9.]+).html$       /index.php?page=products?pid=$1
RewriteRule ^([^/?]*).html$               /index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&page=$1 [PT,L]

Otherwise I think you'll find your page link ending in .html will not work.

 

 

EDIT: actually nevermind that. What you've got should work because of %{QUERY_STRING} I think..

[linstefoo]

I just thought you'd like to know that that worked, now my products end in .html. Thanks again for your assistance