Question

OK, this is probably pretty easy, but I am just having a knuckle of a time trying to get it to work.

I have a small GET – form on a page with a text area (name=id).. when a person enters an ID number (which is just POST ID from a story) — then I have it displayed in the URL like so:

http://mywebpage.com/page.php?id=582

So it just GETS the id from the URL and uses it in the query. I have a URL row in my table which is the title hypenated, like this: this-is-my-site, which just grabs the title of the story and runs it through a function really quick.

My question is, how would I keep the same format, but when the form gets submitted to look up the story by ID, then how would I get the URL row in my title to replace my ?id= variable??

So instead of

http://mywebpage.com/page.php?id=582

It would return

http://mywebpage.com/page.php/this-is-my-site.html

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

if(isset($_GET['id'])){
     $id=intval($_GET['id']); // sanitize it
     // get row by id
     //also we can redirect here to pretty url by 
     header('Location:'. $url)
}
else{
     //get by URI
}

PS: I don’t know how to use database in rewrite(and .htaccess) but this solution need not it.
Use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']