Mod_Rewrite PHP issue - php

Question

I have actually tried the tutorial stated in here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/using-htaccess-files-for-pretty-urls
I have tried to use the PHP version of the Tutorial. However it doesn't seems to work. In fact it looks a little bit illogical for me.
This is the code which I'd need to place to the .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^.*$ ./index.php
As I have tested this actually redirects everything to the index.php file. So I have inserted this code to my index.php file:
$request = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$params = split("/", $request);
$safe_pages = array("login");
if(in_array($params[0], $safe_pages)) {
echo 'ok'; //insert a file here
} else {
echo 'not ok'; //header to 403.php
}
This code is quite starightforward. If the URI is /login it should echo: "ok" (insert the file there).
However whenever I type: mywebsite.com/login it just always gives me the index.php, with the message: "not ok" so something should be wrong with the php code I guess.

Answer 1

Your are missing one more method on the .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

This should suport url like 'page/item'
<?php
$request = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$params = explode("/", $request);
$safe_pages = array("login");
if(in_array($params[0], $safe_pages)) {
echo 'ok'; //insert a file here
} else {
echo 'not ok'; //header to 403.php
}
?>
This dont work with url like 'page/item'
This should work:
<?php
$request = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$params = explode("/", $request);
$safe_pages = array("login");
$last_item = count($params)-1;
if(in_array($params[$last_item], $safe_pages)) {
echo 'ok'; //insert a file here
} else {
echo 'not ok'; //header to 403.php
}
You are testing the wrong item. You should check for the string 'login' in the end of the array. And the function split is depreciated, use explode()