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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:56:36+00:00

I’ve got a PHP file called books.php, and I’d like to use SEO URLs

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I’ve got a PHP file called books.php, and I’d like to use SEO URLs using htaccess and PHP.

I would like to create rules for the following formats:
books.php?bookid=X (Optional: books.php?bookid=X&page=Y)
books.php?categoryid=X (Optional: books.php?categoryid=X&page=Y)
books.php?do=search&query=X
books.php?do=search&tag=X

These would be accessible through:
/books/book/{booktitle}
/books/category/{categorytitle}
/books/search/{search_string}
/books/tags/{tagtext}

What I’d like to know is the main idea for doing this.
Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I find it’s easier to just do something like this:

    /books/book/9834/{title}

    Where the number is the database ID, and the plain-text title is just thrown away by the PHP. It’s not as clean, but there’s too many problems involving uniqueness if you try to pass the title in to a SQL query IMO.

    Check out the mod-rewrite generator here for help building rules.

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