Question

I have a query string mysite.com/?local=1 local varies from 1 – 600.

For each local is a city name. How can I rewrite the url so that it appears mysite.com/cityname/. I do not mind writing a scenario for each such as if (local ==1){cityname = boston;}.

Is what I’m asking for even possible? So I’d like to take mysite.com/?local=1 and turn it into mysite.com/boston/.

Answer 1

index.php:

<?php
$map = array(
    1 => 'city',
    2 => 'Portland',
    3 => 'Kaunas',
    4 => 'Hokaido',
    .....
);
if (isset($_GET['local']) && intval($_GET['local']) < 600 && intval($_GET['local']) > 0) {
    header('Location: mysite.com/' . $map[intval($_GET['local'])]);
    die(); // Redirect to use the pretty url
}
$path = explode('/', explode('?', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])[0]); // might need to expand if php version < 5.4
$city = $path[1];

.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [PT,L]
</IfModule>

Basically what this combo does is if a GET string with variable ‘local’ is passed it will do a redirect with the city id converted to a name. After that you just take the query string and do whatever you want with it