Question

Currently urls are like this http://example.com/?p=2, so if I link to another page in my site, it will be <a href="http://example.com/?p=2"></a>

A database contains a list of pages, with 3 columns, id, title and content. So for example the page with id 2 has a title of foo.

I want the user to be able to enter the url: http://example.com/foo and have the user see what is on http://example.com/?p=2. So I will be able to link to pages like: <a href="http://example.com/foo"></a> but the URL in the address bar will remain the friendly (foo) version.

Answer 1

I’m not sure if this is the right syntax, but logically you should have in your .htaccess file something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1

then inside index.php you GET title and do what you want with it.