Question

I can’t get my head around exactly what I want to do using mod_rewrite.

I want to be able to type in a url such as:

http://site.com/project/project-title/people/alex-coady

or

http://site.com/project/project-title/tasks/task-list-title

which will then be processed at handle.php with the variables available such that:

$_GET['project'] would equal 'project-title'

$_GET['people'] would equal 'alex-coady' (first example)

$_GET['tasks'] would equal 'task-list-title' (second example)

To reiterate: All requests will be managed by handle.php, but if any additional variables are tacked onto the URL, first the keyword people, tasks, projects (and any others I manually add) would be checked and the value immediately after them would be added in the form suggested above.

ie. http://site.com/handle.php?project=project-title&people=alex-coady&tasks= (first example)

Thank you.

Answer 1

How I would handle this is to forget about project,people,tasks and pass everything to the handle.php and then process it there, else you could end up having a rewrite rule for each request you add in the future.

So your mod_rewrite would look like:

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ handle.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]

And your handle/router would look something like this (example)

<?php 
//Get Route from request
$route = (!isset($_GET['route']))?'':$_GET['route'];

/*Split the parts of the route*/
$parts = explode('/', $route,4);

//http://site.com/project/project-title/people/alex-coady
//http://site.com/project/project-title/tasks/task-list-title

$project    = (isset($parts[0]))?$parts[0]:null; //project/
$p_title    = (isset($parts[1]))?$parts[1]:null; //project-title/
$action     = (isset($parts[2]))?$parts[2]:null; //people or tasks
$sub_action = (isset($parts[3]))?$parts[3]:null; //alex-coady or task-list-title

//Then work with the above variables
?>