Question

I’m developping a website using php and the “template.inc” class.
The problem is that I want to create a mini-cms that allows the admin to create an “html” page with these mysql attributes:

Table Name : Page
-----------------
id   :auto-icremented) 
name :varchar

In the architecture, if he created the page number “5”, the url is

"ww.mywebsite.com/index.php?id=5".

But, this isn’t very esthectic so, as I’m very bad at url rewriting even if i read many tutorials, i want to type the name+”html” to access to the page.

If we take the example of the

"www.mywebsite.com/index.php?id=5"

if the admin created a page with the following values:

id   : 5
name : 'home'

i want that the user can type

"www.mywebsite.com/home.html" 

and with no redirection as i want that this last url must still appear and become the official url.

Thanks for your answer,
i know how to rewrite http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php?id=5 to http://www.mywebsite.com/5.html … but the problem is that i want, first, to get the “name” vale before and in my example, the name value is “home” (5 =>’home’).
How can i access to my database with the url rewriting engine?

Thank you very much,
regards.

Answer 1

Use the .htaccess file from a standard WordPress install to redirect everything to one PHP file. Something like this…

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    # Base is the URL path of the home directory
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L]

    # Skip real files and directories
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Then use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to figure out what the user was looking for. Modify the .* if you want to make the rule more specific, like .*\.html.