How to change appearance of URL from within a PHP script

Question

I have some PHP and HTML in the same file, and I am not exactly sure how to make the URL appear as the name of that page.

Here is an example of what I would like to

Answer 1

What you need is to learn more on how .htaccess work.

Here is a good link that got me started:

.htaccess tricks and tips

Update:

Here is a very common practice in many framework where all requests are sent to index.php, and from there you use php to serve the correct page:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/index.php [L,R=301]