Question

I’m trying to get below URL to do a redirect / rewrite

http://www.domain.com.au/posting?id=44404

Below is what is required:

http://www.domain.com.au/state/category/job_title

Is there a way to do this with PHP MySQL Joomla application?

This is using custom component so I have to retrieve state, category and job_title information from MySQL database. Is there a way to insert them into htaccess or recognise so that it reflects on the URL field instead?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you can write a script to get from /state/category/job_title to an id, then you can use a RewriteMap. You can only define a map in either the server config or a vhost config, not in an .htaccess file.

Say you had a perl script that parsed out the state, category, and job_title, did some database lookups, then output 44404 or whatever the id is. Then you can define the mapping like so:

RewriteMap jobmap prg:/path/to/your/script.pl

Then in the htaccess file in your document root, you can use the map:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /posting?id=${jobmap:$1/$2/$3}

If you wanted to enumerate every state/category/job_title combination, you could also use a text file or a dbm file. Or if you have mod_dbd loaded and configured, you can also use a SQL select query

Another alternative is to write some kind of php script and route everything through that. It would essentially be doing what the script.pl example would do, parse out the state/category/job_title fields, and do the proper database lookup to obtain an id. You could then include the posting script and hand over the id.