My url is http://testurl.com/user.php?id=1&name=TestUser
My default url for above link would need to be like http://testurl.com/user/12345/TestUser
If user try to change it in own browser link like below
http://testurl.com/user/12345
http://testurl.com/user/12345/
http://testurl.com/user/12345/TestUsers_bla-bla
then url bar automatically changes to http://testurl.com/user/12345/TestUser
Edit
<?php
$name = "This-is-a-test-user";
$id = 1;
$fields = array('id' => $id,
'name' => $name);
$url = "http://localhost/view_user.php?" . http_build_query($fields, '', "&");
?>
<a href = "<?php echo $url; ?>"> View User</a>
You need two things here.
1) htaccess rules to handle
http://testurl.com/user/12345
http://testurl.com/user/12345/
http://testurl.com/user/12345/xxx
and corresponding rules to avoid duplicate content (redirect old format /user.php?xxx
to new format /user/ID/NAME
)
To do so, you can put this code in your root htaccess
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/user\.php\?id=([0-9]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/user\.php\?id=([0-9]+)&name=([^&\s]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ user/%1/%2? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)/?$ user.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)/([^/]+)$ user.php?id=$1&name=$2 [L]
Note: at this point, make sure mod_rewrite is enabled and htaccess
allowed (in Apache configuration file).
A simple test: http://example.com/user/12345/XXXXX
should internally rewrite to /user.php?id=12345&name=XXXXX
.
2) Now you need to adapt user.php
logic (this is here you check for your data <ID, NAME>
pair existence)
<?php
if (!isset($_GET['id']) || empty($_GET['id']))
{
// error page not found (since there is no ID)
header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
return;
}
if (!isset($_GET['name']) || empty($_GET['name']))
{
// no name -> get it by its ID
$name = getNameByID($_GET['id']); // this function checks in the database
if ($name === NULL)
{
// error: ID is unknown -> page not found
header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
return;
}
// ID exists, we now have its name -> redirect to /user/ID/NAME (instead of /user/ID)
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: /user/".$_GET['id']."/".$name);
return;
}
// if we reach here, we have an ID and a name in the url
// we have to check if NAME corresponds to ID (and if ID exists)
$name = getNameByID($_GET['id']); // this function checks in the database
if ($name === NULL)
{
// error: ID is unknown -> page not found
header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found");
return;
}
// now, check if NAME in the url corresponds to the one we got from database
if ($name !== $_GET['name'])
{
// it doesn't -> redirect to good NAME
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: /user/".$_GET['id']."/".$name);
return;
}
// finally, here we're fine.
// do what you then have to do...
?>
I intentionally write this code with "duplicate" parts to let you understand the logic.
Of course, you can improve it.
Why not try to get a very basic rule working, then go from there.
First you need to make sure you server has the rewrite module enabled, then at the top of your htaccess file put:
RewriteEngine On
Then you can put your re-write rules using regex. Eg:
RewriteRule ^user/(\w+)/(\w+)$ user.php?id=$1&name=$2
Try this in root/.htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^user/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /user.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /user.php?id=$1&name=$2 [QSA,L]
The conditions make sure you don't rewrite any existing file/directories on the server.