I am new in PHP and MySQL.
Here's what I've tried so far and I can't understand how to make URL with PHP.
What I want to do is to create a dynamic web page about a particular book. I already created and have some data in my MySQL database to play with.
I've got a function to clear the special characters in the book titles.
function seo($s) {
$tr = array('ş','Ş','ı','İ','ğ','Ğ','ü','Ü','ö','Ö','Ç','ç');
$eng = array('s','s','i','i','g','g','u','u','o','o','c','c');
$s = str_replace($tr,$eng,$s);
$s = strtolower($s);
$s = preg_replace('/&.+?;/', '', $s);
$s = preg_replace('/[^%a-z0-9 _-]/', '', $s);
$s = preg_replace('/\s+/', '-', $s);
$s = preg_replace('|-+|', '-', $s);
$s = trim($s, '-');
return $s;
}
Example
echo seo($booktitle);
.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)-(.*)$ /book.php?id=$1 [L,NC]
Link type
echo "<a href='http://sitename.com/".$bookid."-".seo($booktitle)."'>".$booktitle."</a>";
Output I want
http://sitename.com/id-book-title
The thing is, I don't understand how I can pass the $bookid from the url to the php itself dynamically. I think I need to retrieve book_id from my database and assign it to $bookid variable, is that correct? But how can I connect it to the URL?
For instance, when I type the url http://sitename.com/5-the-trial I need to get the page for the book that has the id of 5.
What's missing here? Can you guide me to the right direction to create dynamic urls? I am both in need of guidance (learn this, search that, etc) and a specific answer to my question, if that's possible.