Need some URL rewriting assistance! ;)

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:37

Hey,

I'm trying to make it so that my www.mydomain.com/categorypage?variable=whatever can be found via:

www.mydomain.com/whatever-randomword

I've been trying different mod rewrite commands but am not getting any luck. I think the issue is with having a random word at the end of my "clean URL".

Does anyone have some code already prepared that works in a similar way? all the mod rewrite examples online just have really simple scenarios.

Cheers

Whitman · 4 Mar 2009 at 11:42

Where's the random word coming from?

SourChipmunk · 4 Mar 2009 at 12:29

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Mar 2009 at 12:42

Random word is for example:

mydomain.com/audi-cars where "cars" is the random word, basically i'm writing these manually into the page. The only variable I want to pass through would be "audi".

RobH · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:57

Why no just redirect everything to a script and let the script deal with sorting out there actual url.

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:58

My scriping isn't too good.

I was quite keen on sorting this using the .htaccess though.

Took me ages but I finally did it!

RewriteRule ^(.*)-randomword categorypage.php?brand=$1 [L]

this code seems to work, hurrah... now I just need to work out how to make it not work if the ID doesn't exist