Question

How can i archieve permalink urls with php scripts?
I mean something like wordpress does for it posts like

url: www.example.com/year/entry 

$year = ...
$entry = ...

without having the actual folder created …
I dont want to use .htacess because WordPress does not use it either i think.

Normal behaviour would be a 404 Error because the folder does not exist.

Answer 1

Use mod rewrite in Apache (different servers will allow different rewriting mechanisms).

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Most of the time the rewrites are done using regex. Here is an example (i will explain what it does after) that you put in a .htaccess file in the root directory of your site ie: http://website.com/

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^js/main.js$ /scripts/main.php [L]

That will allow you to enter the following in your browser: http://website.com/main.js But the file will actually be located on the server at http://website.com/scripts/main.php and the files can be located OUT of the public directory for better security.

Another example but this time using a little more regex

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^js/([0-9a-f]+).js$ /scripts/main.php [L]

Allows all these to go to the same file:

• http://website.com/abc018.js
• http://website.com/fbc01.js
• http://website.com/8bc18.js

will all load http://website.com/scripts/main.php

P.S. The [L] indicates to the server that it’s the LAST rewrite and it does not need to keep looking for matches.