Question

I’ve written this short piece of php code that requires 2 variables name and id, now the code itself works as intended and is not my problem, the problem is that I want to shorten the link to this file from ‘http://www.mypage.org/folder/index.php?name=name&id=0’ to ‘http://www.mypage.org/folder/name;0’, like so:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+);(.*)$ index.php?name=$1&id=$2

But if someone enters a link like ‘http://www.mypage.org/folder/name’ with out the ‘;’ separator they get a 404 page.

Is there a way to write a sort of if statement that also checks for links with out the ‘;’?

The php page can handle a missing id by defaulting to ‘0’ as well as a missing name.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Make ;0 part or URL optional:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(?:;(.*))?$ index.php?name=$1&id=$2

or like this (if the above does not work in Apache)

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(;(.*))?$ index.php?name=$1&id=$3