Clean URLs with PHP [duplicate]

Answer 1

I am using the following .htaccess file to remove the index.php part of the url.

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Installation directory
RewriteBase /

# Protect hidden files from being viewed
<Files .*>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny From All
</Files>

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !favicon.ico$

RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

Otherwise I can recommend the Kohana framework as a reference (they also have a fairly nice url parser and controller system)

Answer 2

You'll need to do this in Apache using mod_rewrite. You'll need to redirect all URLs to to your index.php and then, maybe using parse_url, figure out what to do with them.

For example:

# Turn on the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Only redirect if the request is not for index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php

# and the request is not for an actual file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# or an actual folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# finally, rewrite (not redirect) to index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Answer 3

The concept of decoupling the actual files/folders from the URL is called routing. Many PHP frameworks include this kind of functionality, mostly using mod_rewrite. There is a nice blog post on PHP URL Routing that implements a simple standalone router class.

It creates mapping like this:

mysite.com/projects/show/1 --> Projects::show(1)

So the requested URL results in the function show() of the class Projects being called, with the parameter of 1.

You can use this to build flexible mappings of pretty URLs to your PHP code.

Answer 4

Something like this in your .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]

(Be sure the rewrite module is enabled)