Url rewrite, htaccess and PHP how to do it - php

Question

I have a problem with this url and I want to know how to rewrite that into htaccess. I'm pretty new into this stuff so I'm curious on how to do this, for example this url:
WEBSITE/?page=online
and rewrite it to, for example:
WEBSITE/page/online
or this url:
WEBSITE/?page=account&hide=x
to, for example:
WEBSITE/page/account/hide/x
I use this PHP script to include the pages inside one HTML document:
<?php
if (empty($_GET))
{
include 'pages/index.php';
} else {
if (!file_exists('pages/' . $_GET['page'] . '.php' ))
{
header("Location: /");
} else {
include 'pages/' . $_GET['page'] . '.php';
}
}
?>

Answer 1

In your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Match SITE/page/account/hide/x, etc
RewriteRule ^/?page/([^\.*]+)/([^\.*]+)/([^\.*]+)?$ index.php?page=$1&$2=$3 [L,QSA]
# Match /SITE/page/online etc.
RewriteRule ^/?page/([^\.*]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

You could do something like this.
.htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) control.php [L]
This says take every request coming to your server and sends it into the control.php file. Then in control.php we process all the gets to directories. You'll probably want some fallbacks, e.g. no GET request; should it go to the root, 404, 403?
control.php
<?php
$parts = '';
foreach($_GET as $key => $directories) {
$parts .= $key . '/' . $directories . '/';
}
header('Location: ' . '/' . $parts);
?>