multitwitch style url rewrite - php

Question

I'm trying to recreate the url rewriting that multitwitch.tv uses however am having issues in doing this as google is being unhelpful thinking I want to remove trailing slashes.
I'm trying to effectively do this:
site.com/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/eee
site.com?aaa&bbb&ccc&ddd&eee
Although multitwitch's source is public on Github it's python and not PHP with a .htaccess file so I've not been able to solve this for a while now.
Any help will be greatly accepted.
user inputted url: site.com/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/eee
rewrite to: site.com?aaa&bbb&ccc&ddd&eee
.htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?channels=$1 [NC,L]
php:
<?php
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
echo $key;
}
?>

Answer 1

The problem is you want a bunch of levels deep. It might be easier to handle that in php rather than creating a rule for every sub directory added in the URI.
So I would probably do something like this. This will send every request to PHP.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule index\.php - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [NC,L]
Then you can type in http://example.com/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd
In PHP in your index.php you can then do
<?php
$aURI = explode("/",$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
print_r($aURI);exit;
?>
Then use the parts as you need them. You could even count the number of pieces in the new array and based on that you can do stuff. This way you don't have to have a .htaccess rule for every level you want to add to the URL.