I'm new to URlRewriting and I've been having some problems rewriting my URLs, I have one single .php index page in which the content is filled using php depending on the url variables.
My problem is that I cannot seem to find the correct expressions to get it working.
For my homepage I'm only sending out 1 variable like
"index.php?page=home"
BUT for other pages I'm using up to 4 variables like "index.php?page=about&content=about-news&id=27&pn=1"
Now I got as far as getting 1 or 2 working seperately but not together using:
RewriteRule ^((.*)+)$ index.php?page=$1
OR
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?page=$1&content=$2
I've been looking around on google and Stackoverflow for the past few days but I cannot seem to find a working solution, does anyone have any ideas of how to get this working?
Cheers
All you need is one rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
then in your index.php file your split the route into piecies:
$route = (!isset($_GET['route']))?'':$_GET['route']);
$parts = explode('/', $route);
So your old urls like this:
index.php?page=home
index.php?page=about&content=about-news&id=27&pn=1
index.php?page=$1
index.php?page=$1&content=$2
Become:
Example: `http://example.com/controller/action/do/value`
or `http://example.com/$parts[0]/$parts[1]/$parts[2]/$parts[3]/$parts[4]`
Keeping to the idea of controller->action->do->value its easy to assign routes.
?page=
will be your controller
?content=
will be your action
?id=
will be your subaction | do | value ect
Try:
#Make sure it's not an actual file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#Make sure its not a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#Rewrite the request to index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
You can then look at the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable to see what was asked for.
That should work for you, let me know how you get on.