Secure url parameter - php

Question

ok,Let me explain you step by step,Point is im new for this developments.
php files in my cproject directory :
allproducts.php
watch.php
in allproducts.php im displaying all the products available in the database. and every products has it own url. In my watch.php im displaying certain data according to a parameter comes from the allproducts.php page.
in my allproducts.php page i have this url :
http://localhost/cproject/watch?v=
url looks like something like this :
localhost/cproject/watch?v=J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk
at the moment i wrote a rewriterule for make watch.php in to "watch"
now what i want is to get rid of this "?" mark in to "/" and "v= " into "/"
so i want my rul to looks like this
localhost/cproject/watch/J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk
i hope now u do understand what i want to do actually ?
if i suddenly explain you what i have on my .htaccess file for this watch.php
i have this line of code
RewriteRule ^watch watch.php [NC,L]

Answer 1

You have to use .htaccess for doing url this.
.htaccess file code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
For PHP version less than 5.2.6 try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
If you need to get the parameter from the url then use:
javascript
var str = "http://localhost/cproject/watch?v=J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk";
var param = str.split("=")[1];
alert(param);
Result
J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk
With the new url
var str = "http://localhost/cproject/J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk";
var param = str.split("/");
alert(param[param.length - 1]);
Result
J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk

Answer 2

For the .htaccess file you can use this RewriteRule which will forward the urls with just a / to the url with /watch?v=.
RewriteRule ^cproject/(.*) cproject/watch?v=$1 [NC]
For example:
Start URL http://localhost/cproject/eeeeeeeaf
End URL http://localhost/cproject/watch?v=eeeeeeeaf
But what i want is to get a url like i have mentioned above and get the parameter in a different page
You can do this with PHP from the /watch file by using the REQUEST_URI element in the $_SERVER[] array.
For the PHP code you could do:
<?php
$request = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$exploded = explode("/", $request);
$id = $exploded[4];
echo $id;
?>
In regards to your additions to your question, it is easy to do as I have put above. Instead of what I have put, you can instead just use:
RewriteRule ^watch/(.*) watch.php?v=$1 [NC,L]
You can add this rule alongside your current rule (preferably after) and it should function as you require.
now what i want is to get rid of this "?" mark in to "/" and "v= " into "/" so i want my rul to looks like this localhost/cproject/watch/J46TKlqSw3Gt4sk
The URL RewriteRule I provided will do this :)
Have you actually tested the rewrites you have been provided with?