Question

I am trying to implement URL rewriting in my PHP application. Can someone share a step by step procedure of implementing URL rewriting in PHP

In my application I want to implement following URL rewriting

http://example.com/fast-five
http://example.com/300
http://example.com/13-b

from

http://example.com/movie-download.php?nm=fast-five
http://example.com/movie-download.php?nm=300
http://example.com/movie-download.php?nm=13-b

One more thing which URL will be best according to SEO, management, application point-of-view out of the following two types.

Answer 1

Are you serving your PHP through an Apache HTTP Server installation? If so:

RewriteRule ^/fast-five$ /movie-download.php?nm=fast-five [R=301]

From an SEO perspective, the first would be preferred. Using the HTTP 301 (“Moved Permanently”) is most effective for this.