How'd I do this?

JonD · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:17

Ive seen the subject around but dunno how to do it.

Basically I code my links on my site as ?p=whatever&id=number etc...

Egs:

/?p=news&id=2
/?p=interviews
/?p=interviews&id=1231

But how can I translate it to and still work the same way?

/news/2
/interviews
/interviews/1231

Is it modwrite or sumthing?

Thx

Conrad11 · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:26

Sorry I am not a PHP wizz so i don't know the correct terminology.

I think you have to register the things that are posted over URL.

Then you can make the url by simply putting them into a string?

Something like this:

PHP:

$p = $_REQUEST['p'];
$id = $_REQUEST['id'];

$url = '/' . $p . '/' . $id;

growse · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:42

google for mod_rewrite. That should tell you everything you need to know.

robmiller · 3 Jul 2006 at 22:06

Create a file called .htaccess in the same directory as your scripts. In it, put:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/?$			index.php?p=news&id=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^interviews/([0-9]+)/?$		index.php?p=interviews&id=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^interviews/?$			index.php?p=interviews [QSA]

JonD · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:14

robmiller said:
Create a file called .htaccess in the same directory as your scripts. In it, put:

Code:

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=news&id=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^interviews/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=interviews&id=$1 [QSA] RewriteRule ^interviews/?$ index.php?p=interviews [QSA]

Would I have to write the same thing for all my pages? (There will be about 15 different ?p=whatever and potentially LOADS of &id=number.

robmiller · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:23

No, it matches any number for the id values, so news/18/ will work, as will news/96/ as will news/65355/ etc. It just matches news and interviews though, if you've any more you'll need to add them.

NathanE · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:23

Yes you'd need one for each page of your site. But because it uses regex you won't need to have one for each number... that'd just be silly!

JonD · 4 Jul 2006 at 22:49

OK ive done what you said and I get this error:

Obviously I havnt setup a config or summit can sumone point me in the right direction? My site index is http://localhost/mysite/

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Thx