Question

I’m trying to make a dynamic page which will show the content based on the URL but I’m wondering if it’s possible to make the URL more readable for the user.

So I have a page called work.php which will show a certain piece of work depending on the ID passed in the URL. So work.php?project=1 would show project 1.

Is there a way to achieve the the same effect using a URL more like http://www.website.com/work/projectname

Answer 1

look at this: .htaccess and mod_rewrite for apache

you can then process the url which stands in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

** addendum **

for example I am using something like this in the .htacess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
# Turn on the RewriteEngine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#  Rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

So then I will always land on index.php where I will parse the URI and can use it as a distributer and router for my pages.