Question

I want to be able to handle mod rewrites from within PHP instead of my .htaccess file, this way when I have custom modules that need a new rewrite I don’t have to redo the .htaccess file.

I want to mimic the way that WordPress does their .htaccess which is:

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

My current .htaccess is this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# MBP Rules
RewriteRule ^module/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/?$ /index.php?p=module&prefix=$1&module_page=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^module/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/?$ /index.php?p=module&prefix=$1&module_page=$2&page=$3 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^module/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?p=module&prefix=$1&module_page=$2&id=$3 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-_]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1&s=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-_]+)/([A-Za-z-_]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1&s=$2&id=$3 [NC,QSA,L]

Does anyone know how to make this happen?

Answer 1

My way is to replace

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

With

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?path=$1 [L,QSA]

Then you have to do similar parsing and everything as modrewrite does, but you can do it yourself using preg_match on $_GET[‘path’]. I.e.

if (preg_match('/id/([0-9]*)', $_GET['path'], $matches)) {
    Do code;
}