Question

I’m starting on a website project where I want to rewrite urls with a dynamic length. For example, the following url’s can exist in the site:

http://www.url.com/signup/

Or

http://www.url.com/profile/mark/pm/compose/

Now I’ve got a .htaccess script working, but I doubt it’s efficiency. Here’s the code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?page=$1

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1&subone=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?page=$1&subone=$2

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?    page=$1&subone=$2&subtwo=$3
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?page=$1&subone=$2&subtwo=$3

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1&subone=$2&subtwo=$3&subthree=$4
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?page=$1&subone=$2&subtwo=$3&subthree=$4

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?arg[0]=$1&arg[1]=$2&arg[2]=$3&arg[3]=$4&arg[4]=$5
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?arg[0]=$1&arg[1]=$2&arg[2]=$3&arg[3]=$4&arg[4]=$5

I actually want to do something like this, but I can’t figure out how I get it working…

RewriteRule ^{[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+}/$ index.php?urlvar={$#}

So the url

http://www.url.com/profile/mark/pm/compose/

Will result in

http://www.url.com/index.php?urlvar[0]=profile&urlvar[1]=mark&urlvar[2]=pm&urlvar[3]=compose

Anyone whow knows how to fix this?

Answer 1

I got this working:
In .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*)/ index.php?path=$1

In index.php:

<?php
    print_r(explode("/", $_GET['path']));
?>