Question

There is a rewrite rule ensuring that all URL’s head to index.php and maintain a ‘pretty format’.

I still need to get information from them to work out what page to send the user.

Say there is a Url

http://localhost/telephones/nokia

I need to find out the SQL table (‘telephone’) and the make (‘nokia’)

How do I do that.

UPDATE

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+) /index.php?table=$1&make=$2 [NC]

(in .htaccess)

$table = $_GET['table']; $make = $_GET['make'];
$CONsiteurl = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $table WHERE name = $make");

So we can bring up the page now by typing in http://localhost/?make=nokia&table=telephones but cannot get to it by typing in http://localhost/telephones/nokia

Why

Answer 1

Assuming you have mod_rewrite setup you can put something like this in you .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+) /index.php?table=$1&make=$2 [NC]

Then you can access the values from php using $_GET(‘table’) etc.