Clean URL with PHP on XAMPP - php

Question

I have been struggling for months now, and I'm just not getting it. I'm trying to get clean urls with php on xampp, I either get server error 500 or www.something.com/root/index.php?page=whatever does not go away I want www.someting.com/page/queryresult/
Can anyone help?
I think the problem is linking the menu to the query and the sticky part is in the switch
function display_menus_new()
{
$sql = "SELECT * FROM menus";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$array = array();
if (mysql_num_rows($query)){
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)){
$array[$rows['parent_id']][] = $rows;
}
loop_array($array);
}
}
function loop_array($array = array(), $parent_id = 0)
{
if(!empty($array[$parent_id])) {
echo '<ul>';
foreach($array[$parent_id] as $items){
echo '<li>';
switch($items['name']){
case 'Home': print_r('<a href="home.php" >'.($items['name']).'</a>');
$items = str_replace("name", "", "");
case 'About': print_r('<a href="about.php" >'.($items['name']).'</a>');
$items = str_replace("name", "", "");
case 'Services': print_r('<a href="services.php" >'.($items['name']).'</a>');
$items = str_replace("name", "", "");
case 'Contact': print_r('<a href="contact.php" >'.($items['name']).'</a>');
$items = str_replace("name", "", ""); }
//This part Connects the menu to the Database Query Where ?Page= the Data Value connection
print_r('<a href="?Page='.($items['name']).'" >');
echo $items['name'];
loop_array($array, $items['Cat']);
echo '</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
}

Answer 1

i have xampp on windows;
.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
# Run everything else but real files through parse.php
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/dev-boards
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tests
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(admin|admintemplate)\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|png|html|js|json|jpg|jpeg)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ parse.php?info=$1 [L]
parse.php:
<?php
include("../connect.local.php");
session_start();
$getVars = $_GET['info'];
$vars = explode("/",$getVars);
//http://localhost/viewprofile/0/yes
//$vars[0] is "viewprofile"
//$vars[1] is 0
//$vars[2] is "yes"
What i do is i use file_exists to use $vars[0] and $vars[1] to reference a folder/file. if the file doesnt exist, route to $vars[0]/index.php
if the folder doesnt exists, redirect to index.php
Hope this helps to get you started.

Answer 2

add a file called .htaccess in your home directory
start the rewrite engine at the top of the file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
In that file, you'll write some conditions for re-directing to a clean URL:
#first, we need to define the request, in this case, index.php?page=whatever
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.php?page=([0-9]*)
# now we need to make it look like it's just the clean url
RewriteRule ^$ /page/%1? [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+) /index.php?page=$1 [L]
This is a bit confusing, but basically what it means is that when your browser receives the ugly URL, it gets redirected to the pretty URL. Then, the re-write fills the pretty URL with the content from the ugly URL.
Close your if statement after you're done re-writing:
</IfModule>