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Website is running on a web host where we don’t have access to a .htaccess file. However, I want to do URL rewriting for user friendly URLs.
e.g. Original URL
www.example.com/file?q=name
expected URL
www.example.com/file/name
As other people said, just use links like
/index.php/nice/looking/url.The “index.php” in the middle of the URL might look a little strange, but I don’t think it’s possible to have it look better without .htaccess
Else, you could ask your hoster to redirect any URL to /index.php so that you can handle URL rewriting without having
/index.phpin your URL.Then you can just use a regex match to detect what file to include.
preg_match('@[/]{1}([a-zA-Z0-9]+)@', $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"], $matches)($matches will contain all “parts” of the url in an array)Be careful with including the files, use a whitelist so you’re sure nobody would be able to load internal files.