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Is there a way I can use PHP (and/or .htaccess) to rewrite the URL of a page.
For example if a user goes to http://www.mysite.com/french they are actually accessing the page which is http://www.mysite.com/index.php?lang=fr
But not a redirect.
on the Apache site you can find several examples of URL rewriting flavors, by the way it’s enough to use something like this in an .htaccess file:
Where
[flag]can be one of the following:You may want to have a look at the PT (passthrough) flag docs or RewriteRule flags docs.
Also, pay attention to what your links are pointing to: in fact, the RewriteRule first argument is a regular expression that will be used to match the URLs to be rewritten. At the moment,
matches “french”, right after the domain name,followed either by a slash (/) or nothing (that’s the meaning of
(/|)); that is, it’ll match http://www.mysite.com/french and http://www.mysite.com/french/ but nothing else. If you need to parse query string arguments, or subpaths, then you may need a more complex regex.