Re: URL rewriting...anybody done this?

> On Thursday 15 January 2004 02:44, Ryan A wrote: > >> It seems to be partly working. >> >> /* >> How isn't it working? What happens? I would try one variable first, get >> that working, then add the others. Also, I am not sure how it will >> handle the space in "Beginners Corner". Try passing simple values first. >> */ >> Its a bit hard to explain what happens so see for yourself: >> Heres the index page: >> http://www.rizkhan.net/articles/articles.php >> Heres the actual page: >> >> http://www.rizkhan.net/articles/show.php?category=Beginners%20Corner&sid=1& >> id=1 and then if you modify it to: >> http://www.rizkhan.net/articles/show/Beginners%20Corner/1/1 >> >> it just shows me the index...which even links wrong. >> >> Ok, will try to pass a value without the space in between. > >>>> RewriteRule ^show/(.*)/(.*)/(.*).php >>>> /show.php?category=Beginners%20Corner&sid=$2&id=$3 > > It doesn't look like your rule would match. Try: > RewriteRule ^show/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) > > Another way to achieve a similar result without using Rewrite is to parse > $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], and possibly $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] > > Eg if your link is: > > http://www.rizkhan.net/articles/show.php/Beginners%20Corner/1/1 > > Then $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] would contain > > /articles/show.php/Beginners%20Corner/1/1 > > and $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] would contain > > /Beginners%20Corner/1/1 Ryan, I'm doing what I believe Jason is indicating above. I'm sure in your research you read the articles about URL rewriting on A List Apart, specifically this one: <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/>. Using a similar approach, I'm saving page content in a database with the unique identifier set to the desired value of $REQUEST_URI. After redirecting all requests to index.php as described in the article, I use code in index.php similar to what's in the article, plus this for the database content: ----- // check for database content $conn = db_connect(); if (!$conn) { $db_error = mysql_error(); include("error_page.php"); exit(); } // get the page details from db $request = substr($REQUEST_URI, 1); $results = mysql_query("SELECT DisplayStatus FROM Pages WHERE MenuPath='$request' AND DisplayStatus='Y'"); if (!$results) { $db_error = mysql_error(); include("error_page.php"); exit(); } if (mysql_num_rows($results) > 0) { include("page.php"); exit(); } // if request has not been matched, include custom error page include("notfound.php"); exit(); ----- That pulls page content based on $REQUEST_URI. I build site menus from the database, using values from the MenuPath field as URLs. HTH -- Lowell Allen