Question

I have 2 pages Advertisement.php and Gidc.php and they work if they have user=”some value”
For example:

example.com/advertisement_final_page.php?user=sumeet

and

example.com/gidc_final_page.php?user=nikhil

I want code for htaccess to redirects it to above pages:

example.com/sumeet

and

example.com/nikhil

My database is:

id 1

Type Advertisement

user sumeet

contact 651651

owner Sumeet Patel

website asdfkjh.com

email [e-mail]

address skjdf, sd, sdh

id 2

Type Gidc

user nikhil

contact 651651

owner Nikhil Patel

website sadfjh.com

email [e-mail]

address skjdf, sd, sdh

My htaccess rules:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ advertisement_final_page.php?user=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ gidc_final_page.php?user=$1

But by above codes it reach to advertisement_final_page.php page.
Like if I enter

example.com/nikhil

it redirects to

example.com/advertisement_final_page.php?user=nikhil

Answer 1

The patterns in your rules seem to be identical. The RewriteEngine will match the first rule it can, in this case the first.

You should probably write a controller file that you redirect all your requests to. Then read the required user from $_GET['user'], read the user’s data from your database and redirect/include the appropriate PHP file based on the user’s Type.