Question

To request some data from a web server, we can use the GET method,like

http://www.example.com/?id=xyz

but I want to request the data like

http://www.example.com/xyz

How can it be achieved in PHP?

Answer 1

Create a file in your root directory and call it .htaccess. Put this in it:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [R=301,L]

If someone goes to http://www.example.com/xyz and xyz is not a directory or a file it will load /index.php?xyz instead. It will be completely transparent to your users.