I dont like something like this: example.com/?id=2222. How to change it into example.com/2222?
You need to look into mod_rewrite.
From the documentation: This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly.
So the url can look like example.com/2222 for the user, but then translated into example.com/?id=2222 on the server.
Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled, and you'll need a few lines in an .htaccess file, similar to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?id=$1 [L]
You can get more information (with lots of examples) here, or by searching for "htaccess pretty urls" in a search engine.
If you are unable to use mod_rewrite (which is the best way), you could use a 404 trap.
That is, normally example.com/2222 would show a 404 page to the user. Well if you set your server to point to a script of your choice instead of the default 404 page, you can now take the URL example.com/2222 and redirect the user to wherever you want.
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I have looked around and attempted my own research on this topic but to no avail just yet.
I have a dynamic webpage set up to look for a ID from a database to retrieve elements required. This results in of course the web page looking like www.site.com/page?id=1
My desired outcome would be like a title for this page to be called.
Such as say I had a fruit product it and user went to my site and went to the address /fruit it would it would be the content of ?id=1 just as an example.
I have seen this used on many a site but not sure how this is programmed or works. Is this something to do with a htaccess document?
Thanks in advance. Appreciate all the help.
While this has been asked and answered many times, I know many people find it difficult to search for this since there are so many common "noise" words related to it. For that reason, I believe it's worth answering again.
If you're using Apache as your webserver (which I'm assuming you are since you mention .htaccess), what you're looking for to create those "clean URLs" is mod_rewrite, which takes a set of rules and rewrites the URL requested by the browser to another path or script.
You would typically enable this in your Apache config or in .htaccess, and in a simple form (a one-to-one mapping) at it would look something like this (provided mod_rewrite is installed):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^fruit$ index.php?type=1 [L]
Now obviously that doesn't scale well if you have a bunch of dynamic pages you want to create, so what you can do is tell all pages that aren't a really file or directory to be passed to a file for processing, like so:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
In this case we're rewriting any request that doesn't resolve to a real file or directory to index.php, and then using the "last" flag [L] to stop processing other rules. Then in our PHP script, we can access the virtual path (in this case /fruit) by using $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] and doing whatever conditional logic we want with that. If you don't get anything in that variable, ensure that the AcceptPathInfo On directive is set in your Apache config or .htaccess.
A way to test the basic concept/logic without having any rewrite rules would be to use a URL like https://example.com/index.php/fruit. You'll then see that in index.php $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] will contain the string /fruit. You can rewrite URLs to files in other directories, chain rewrite rules, redirect the browser to other URLs, or even edit environment variables.
There are many good tutorials around using mod_rewrite for clean URLs, so I won't attempt to cover all the nuances here. Just know that it's a very powerful tool, but it's also pretty easy to break your rules if you aren't very comfortable with regular expressions or get lost in the many rules that are commonly in a configuration.
Note that if this is an existing site, you'll also want to use mod_rewrite or mod_redirect to redirect the old URLs to the new ones so they don't break (and for the benefit of having a single URL for search rankings).
I've seen it before and I have no clue how to do it or what to look for on google to find it.
Basically I'd like to know how to get these shortened urls to work, what i mean is for example
this: http://website.com/index.php?id=666
turned into this: http://website.com/666
Is there some way to do this through php or do people actually go around making maps for each id?
thanks
Hi there depends what server you are on but if you are using a server with apache that has mod rewrite you can use a htaccess rule.
So an example would be:
first create a .htaccess file then paste in the following content:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?$ index.php?id=$1 [L]
I am building a php+mysql site which will have numerous articles. I am pretty ok with html php jquery etc. I need to now what are the steps I need to take in order not have http://www.mysite.com/articles.php?id=123 but to have http://www.mysite.com/articles/123-title-of-article?
Thanks
Well, you need, for instance, to store the token for each article (to optimize), like your example "123-title-of-article". Next step is to use .htaccess and mod_rewrite from Apache (if is your case).
If you will do it only on this articles "page folder" (articles/), I suggest to you make this folder valid and make the .htaccess inside that and redirect to articles.php?id={POST_ID_FOUND_BY_TOKEN}.
Take a look too on $_SERVER["REQUEST_*"] variables from PHP.
See: this page, on end of article have some examples.
The usual way to do this is by using mod_rewrite.
You create a .htaccess file which, behind the scene, redirects the latter request to the former.
You can read about it here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
You'll need something called mod_rewrite, which is an apache module.
The configuration looks like this (stolen from a client's drupal install):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule articles/(.*)$ articles.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
I haven't tested this, but it should work.
I have a website that passes some GET variables to different pages in PHP. My issue is that now I have a url with variables i.e. index.php?category=categoryname and that's not very memorable.
Is there any way I can change the URL to something like /categoryname instead without duplicating the page and storing in folders? But also allow users to type in /categoryname and be redirected to the correct page?
.htaccess Apache mod_rewrite, almost every professional dynamic website uses this method (like stackoverflow).
The method is fully explained in this article far better then I could ever explain it in this answer box.
You should look into writing some apache Mod_Rewrite rules in a .htaccess file.
The solution is discussed here:
this is done by the rewrite module of apache and this handles regular
expressions. You have to put a rule
like this in your .htaccess file on
the root of your website:
RewriteRule ^cat/([0-9]+)$
/index.php?category=$1
^ means the start of the url after
www.example.com/ $ means the end of
the page.
www.example.com/cat/123
will be converted by the server to:
www.example.com/index.php?category=123
In PHP you use the normal $_GET['id']
variable. The rewrite module must be
enabled by apache... This is mostly
used to make the url format
independent of the serverside
scripting language so the .php in the
url is not logical. Thats why i
changed it to product/ . The .htaccess
starts with
RewriteEngine On Options
+FollowSymLinks RewriteBase / Here all the rewrite rules.. ...
Can I do that thing that twitter and many other sites do where a url shows a users page.
www.mysite.com/the_user_name
In php... or how does one do it?
Look into how to use the mod_rewrite module in .htaccess.
Here's some ALA goodness:
How to Succeed With URLs
URLS! URLS! URLS!
The easiest method would be to use mod_rewrite in Apache (as opposed to doing it in PHP). Here's a good beginner's guide.
The easiest way that I know of is to create a .htaccess file for the website with the RewriteEngine turned on.
For example
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+) /index.php?user=$1
Do a google search for .htaccess and RewriteEngine to get a better grasp of the process or creating an .htaccess file.