Creating dynamic URLs in htaccess

Question

I\'m trying to write an .htaccess file that will make my URLs more attractive to search engines. I know basically how to do this, but I\'m wondering how I could do this dyna

Answer 1

At the moment you're wondering how to convert your ugly URL (e.g. /view.php?mode=prod&id=1234) into a pretty URL (e.g. /products/product-title). Start looking at this the other way around.

What you want is someone typing /products/product-title to actually take them to the page that can be accessed by /view.php?mode=prod&id=1234.

i.e. your rule could be as follows:

RewriteRule ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-])/?$ /view.php?mode=prod&title=$1

Then in view.php do a lookup based on the title to find the id. Then carry on as normal.