How to do URL re-writing in PHP?

Question

I am trying to implement URL rewriting in my PHP application. Can someone share a step by step procedure of implementing URL rewriting in PHP and MySQL?

In my applic

Answer 1

Using mod rewrite:

RewriteRule ^videos/play/([0-9]+)/([^.]+)$ play.php?id=$1&name=$2

example.com/play.php?id=203&name=google-io-2009-wave-intro

would work as

example.com/videos/play/203/google-io-2009-wave-intro