Question

how to make this url to seo friendly urls

items.php?itemid=1&title=my title goes here

to

products/1/my-title-goes-here

how it can be done using only .htaccess not making any change to table or code currently data is access through id, don’t even changing the query.

Answer 1

Something like (not tested)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^products/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ http://your web site/items.php?=$1&title=$2 [R=301,L]

which matches the patten that starts with products, with the first sub-patten being at least one character long, and anything that is not ‘/’ . Same is true for the second pattern which must end the URL. You then rewrote that into the actual string your software needs.