Question

Current pattern is http://example.com/questions.php?qcid=25&name=java and I want to make it http://example.com/25/java where qcid must be [0-9] and name must be readable and encoded. If it comprise of more than 1 word then ‘-‘ hyphen must be there between them. For example object-oriented.

Answer 1

In .htaccess

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([a-z0-9\-]+)(?!(.css)|(.js))$ questions.php?qcid=$1&name=$2 [NC]

In php, you’ll need to capture name and strip the hyphens and fix the caps if needed. As an example, lets say we want the name to be lower camel cased:

$_GET['name'] = "this-is-a-test-name";

$name = '';
$exploded = explode('-',$_GET['name']);
foreach($exploded as $piece) {
    $name .= ucfirst($piece);
}
// If you have PHP >= 5.3
// $name = lcfirst($name);
// Otherwise
$name{0} = strtolower($name{0});

echo $name;