I wrote a local name/phone/address search engine for my city.
Users must be able to quick-access the results by going to either of these urls:
- search by number
- http://domain.com/5554651
- search by lastname
- http://domain.com/smith
- http://domain.com/smith%20johnson
- search by lastname and first name
- http://domain.com/smith/andrew
- http://domain.com/smith%20johnson/mary%20elizabeth
This is my current .htaccess config:
# Smart links
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /html/index.php?phone=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)$ /html/index.php?lastname=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/([A-Za-z-]+)$ /html/index.php?lastname=$1&name=$2 [QSA,L]
That works pretty well, except if the user includes a space in the lastname and/or first name. Also, no numbers can be used when searching for names.
Any ideas on how to allow spaces in the url? Thanks!