Question

I followed this tutorial .

What I want to achieve is something like

http://something.com/language/controller/action

But I’m getting

http://something.com/controller/action?language=en&id=1

As far as I know, here is part where URL generation goes. But I can’t figure out how to fix it.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Use an htaccess file (if you are unfamiliar with htaccess check for a tutorial on google)

add the following lines in it

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1&request=$2

WIth this rule lets assume you have the domain.com and a user requests the following url

http://www.domain.com/news/December/politics/Titlearticle1

The above rule will break this url request and assign

$_GET['page'] = 'news';

and

$_GET['request'] = '/December/politics/Titlearticle1';

Now in you php script

you could

1) validate the page request

2) explode $_GET[‘request’] to further validate your request

$request_parts = explode('/',$_GET['request']);

3) validate everything! this is very important or your site might be vulnerable.

like so:

if($_GET['page'] == 'news')
}
  include 'news.php';
{
else if ($_GET['page'] == 'home')
{
  include 'home.php';
}
  else
{
  include 'error.php';
}

This is some pretty basic concept but you can expand it according to your needs…