help with mod_rewrite

[Brute]

Anyone here using mod_rewrite, php and .htaccess to create search engine friendly urls?

something like: http://www.bla.com/articles/25 instead of http://www.bla.com/articles.php?id=25

I can't get it to work. Anyone who can help me out?

Thanks

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Brute D.

[Stewart]

hi!

just what im implementing in my new site now, it requires htaccess and a bit of php:

http://www.promotionbase.com/article/485

[fatal]

how exactly do you do it? some code or a site with a tutorial would be nice

[EDIT]
haha, im an idiot, didnt realize that link was for that :O

[El_Nino]

Try looking at this article: Building dynamic pages with search engines in mind

Edit: Sorry, that's the wrong link, I thought it was for something else, if I can find the link I was thinking of, I'll post it.

[Brute]

Originally posted by Stewart
hi!

just what im implementing in my new site now, it requires htaccess and a bit of php:

http://www.promotionbase.com/article/485

Which one of these methods do you use?

I also found another tutorial and other method at:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/succeed/

Have been trying it, but it gives me Parse Errors

[Stewart]

i think the sitepoint tutorials look a lot easier to follow, I would recommend the third way on sitepoint. it has the least downpoints and is fully search engine compatible

[Brute]

ok, thanks

will give it a try

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Brute

[riffola]

Try this

RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 ^/article$ /article/
RewriteRule ^article/$ /article.php [L]
RewriteRule ^article/(.*)/$ /article.php?id=$1 [L]

[nyoung]

if you don't necessarily want to use .htaccess or mod_rewrite, you can place this code block at the top of your page:

$url_array = explode("/",$PATH_INFO);
if (count($url_array) > 1) {
for($i=1;$i<count($url_array);$i++) {
$data[$url_array[$i]] = $url_array[++$i];
}
extract($data);
}

Format url parameters like /variable1/value1/variable2/value2/

example:

http://www.domain.com/id/30/color/red/number/2/

To retrieve the values:
<?
echo $id //returns 30
echo $color //returns red
echo $number //returns 2
?>

[Stewart]

thats what is on sitepoint, u still need to modify htaccess though

[nyoung]

I currently use it with no modification to .htaccess what so ever :-)