Generate URL Alias?? in PHP

Question

I just saw this somewhere, and I\'m interested on it, and can\'t seemed to find it anywhere or I just used the wrong words to search for.

Well I saw this link,

Answer 1

You will need to have a server that will allow you to rewrite requests so you can redirect all requests to a single script. If you are running Apache, you would create an .htaccess file with something like this in it:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^r$ /redirect.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^r/(.*) /redirect.php?__q=/$1 [L,QSA]

Then if you go to http://yourdomain.com/r/234243/adsfsd, the request will be sent to the script /redirect.php and '234243/adsfsd' will be passed as the GET paramiter 'q'.

Then you would create a file called redirect.php that would process the request and then redirect the user. It might look somthing like this: