Question

I’m not sure how to explain this problem so the title is kind of vague!

Well here I go, I’m working on a picture/album page on my website and everything is working great. But I want to add a next/previous picture feature like any good picture website has. I want to passe the different options for sorting out the album by variables.

For now the url on a picture is http://localhost/photo/174/picture-name/, I would like to add on this some parameters so that the url then looks like http://localhost/photo/174/picture-name/album:5/sort:name/.

With the help of .htaccess I would like to extract the variables album and sort`.`But the little catch is that I would still want to be able to get to the page with only this urlhttp://localhost/photo/174/picture-name/“

For now my .htaccess file looks like this :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^photo/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/(.*)/$ photo.php?pic_id=$1

I tried adding this line in it but it did not work out.

RewriteRule ^(.*)/album:([A-Za-z0-9]+)/sort:([A-Za-z0-9]+)/$ &album=$2&sort=$3

I hope someone has an answer for me,

Have a good day

Joris

Answer 1

Did you mean something like this?

RewriteRule ^photo/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/[^/]+/album:([A-Za-z0-9]+)/sort:([A-Za-z0-9]+)/$ photo.php?pic_id=$1&album=$2&sort=$3

You also need to change your original rule:

RewriteRule ^photo/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([^/]*)/?$ photo.php?pic_id=$1

Because what you have will match against the URI with the parameters