URL handling – PHP vs Apache Rewrite

Question

Currently I let a single PHP script handle all incoming URLs. This PHP script then parses the URL and loads the specific handler for that URL. Like this:

if(URI          


        

Answer 1

The PHP approach is correct but it could use a bit of improvement.

$file = $uri.".php";
if (!is_file($file)) { header("Status: 404 Not Found"); require_once(404.php); die(); }
require_once($uri.".php");