How do I preserve the existing query string in a mod_rewrite rule

Question

I\'m trying to rewrite an url from:

http://domain.com/aa/whatever/whatever.php
to
http://domain.com/whatever/whatever.php?language=aa

However, de

Answer 1

You could setup the URL rewrite to pass the language to the php script via the PATH_INFO element of the $_SERVER superglobal. Just pass the language to the script like so:

foobar.php/en?args

In this case, $_SERVER[PATH_INFO] would equal /en