[PHP?] Folders

yhack · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:52

Hi,

First of all, I have no idea how this is done.
I want to use folders to display pages, rather than index.php?page=news.

For example, http://portableapps.com/apps/internet and their forum is split into folders too, http://portableapps.com/node/4659.

How would I go about using folders to do this?
Surely they don't make every page individually?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

JonD · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:16

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Thats would your after.

fluiduk · 11 Jan 2007 at 15:45

Its well worth doing. I did it on a work site and within a week we had 10000 pages in google, never had more than about 200 before that

Aaron

yhack · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:10

Pretty confusing.

How would I change, for example, blah.com/index.php?page=news&news=7 to blah.com/news/7/?

I really can't work it out at all.

robmiller · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:38

Code:

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

yhack · 11 Jan 2007 at 16:48

Thanks!

Pretty simple :rolleyes:

I don't understand ([0-9]+)
How do I change that so it can include letters?
So if news=franky, it would go to /news/franky/
Or am I making crazy things up?

edit: also, is there a way to use relative links for images now?

robmiller · 11 Jan 2007 at 17:26

To be fair, it is pretty simple if you actually read the documentation. You can't assimilate everything instantly

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=news&news=$1 [QSA]

That'll allow any non-forward-slash characters, so news/foo/, news/@:[]Dbleurg`"/ and news/1222/.

Make sure you're sanitising your input appropriately in your script.