URL rewrite more than one php file - php

Question

I got an problem with url rewriteing.
First of all i am starting to think that i am making mistake in the structure of my webpage.
I made more than one php file. I think that this is mistake because in all tutorials and samples urls they are using in .htaccess only index.php.
Info
1. I got in navigation tab index.php section1.php section2.php section3.php section4.php
2. In index.php i only have an basic information that won't change much.
3. In each section.php file i am echoing out list of articles.
4. each aricle got id and i am using it to echo out information when user clicks on article link.
5. link to article "http://www.example.com/section1.php?id=607575"
6. In each section.php file i got more than one page.
7. For now my links to section page looks like this "http://www.example.com/section1.php?page=1".
Questions
Qestions
Should i better echo out all information on index.php page by getting information from url?
If now my link looks like this <a href="http://www.example.com/section1.php?page=1>section1</a> do i need to manually rewrite them OR it dose not matter, .htaccess will do the job?
if i need to rewrite url will it looks like this? section1
How to rewrite urls so they look like this www.example.com/section1/page/1 and www.example.com/section1/article/607575 (i know it's bad to use only numbers, i just need to understand how it works,then i will figure it out,how to replace it with article name).

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, this is how you would rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /path/to/section1.php?page=$ [QSA,L]
I'm not very used to mod_rewrite but that should work. You might have to rewrite rule for ?article too.
If this was not answered correctly, please refer to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Answer 2

From: http://www.example.com/section1/page/1
To: http://www.example.com/section1.php?page=1
RewriteRule ^section(\d+)/page/(\d+)$ /path/to/section$1.php?page=$2
From: http://www.example.com/section1/article/607575
To: http://www.example.com/section1.php?id=607575
RewriteRule ^section(\d+)/article/(\d+)$ /path/to/section$1.php?id=$2