How to work with pretty URLs - PHP - php

Question

i followed up multiple tutorials how to make pretty URL but never actualy make it work (prolly i didnt get something).
What i want:
From something like this:
http://www.example.com/api/v1/get.php?user=UserName&id=7Ka2la2
I want to make something like this:
http://www.example.com/UserName/get/7Ka2la2
What i did try:
As I mentioned I try to follow multiple tutorials but nothing worked for me. So i try something by my self.
//.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
What it does:
it checks if the request filename isn't a file
and checks if it isn't a directory
then, the RewriteRule makes a call to index.php, no matter what was written in the URL
And in my index.php file it looks like this
<?php
function parse_path() {
$path = array();
if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$path = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
return $path;
}
$path_info = parse_path();
echo '<pre>'.print_r($path_info, true).'</pre>';
switch($path_info[1]) {
case 'get': include 'get.php';
break;
default:
include '404.php';
}
So it basicly should just split url to array and then base on URL include right file (in this example its get.php). However like this i can load a file but i have nothing in my $_GET and $_POST which make my script useless for me.
Question:
My code will somehow do what i want so base on url it load content but $_GET and $_POST will not work correctly here. So my question is did I make it wrong way? If yea how should looks the right one and if not how I can access $_GET and $_POST variabiles

Answer 1

You can set$_GET yourself. $_POST is unaffected by the rewrite.
Try this if you like:
<?php
function parse_path() {
$path = array();
if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$path = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
}
return $path;
}
$path_info = parse_path();
echo '<pre>'.print_r($path_info, true).'</pre>';
// SET UP $_GET HERE
$_GET['user'] = $path_info[0];
$_GET['id'] = $path_info[2];
switch($path_info[1]) {
case 'get': include 'get.php';
break;
default:
include '404.php';
}
But if you can still modify the code that looks for $_GET you might want to consider not using $_GET like this, and rather set up some sort of class that contains the values.
And you also might want to consider doing your url rewriting so as to map the original request to something that has get variables.
eg
//.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)/(.+)$ /api/v1/$2.php?user=$1&id=$3 [L]
</IfModule>