GET, POST To Work With modrewrite?

[jooles]

Hello

I have a search form on my site that passes a variable to a search.php page that grabs that variable and does a search

mysite.com/search/search.php?variable=reallycoolcontent

But I want to keep the URLs clean so it appears like this:

mysite.com/search/reallycoolcontent

How can I get the GET and POST variable to work with a clean modrewritten URL?

Thanks!

[php_daemon]

Same as without modrewritten URL, it doesn't change anything when it gets to php.

[xmitchx]

I think hes asking how to get the variable out of the clean URL when its not in the normal GET format? For example:

http://mydomain.com/users/search/myusername
http://mydomain.com/users/search?username=myusername

He wants to get "myusername" out of the top one. Right? Well I forget the exact index name but there is a value in the $_SERVER global variable that will hav the /users/search/myusername string. You just have to explode() it and parse out the variables from the script path.

[php_daemon]

Using ForceType, yes. But jooles is talking about mod_rewrite, in which case there's no difference.

[xmitchx]

Using ForceType, yes. But jooles is talking about mod_rewrite, in which case there's no difference.

It still sounds to me like hes trying to get "reallycoolcontent" out of his URL like a variable. Before he would've jsut done $_GET['variable'] but because reallycoolcontent is now PART of the URL, and not actually a get variable, he would have to access the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] value and parse it.

[php_daemon]

Read into his post, he said he's using mod_rewrite.

[xmitchx]

Read into his post, he said he's using mod_rewrite.

Right, I guess I'm too used to thinking that the variables will be vary in length so I'm used to parsing it I guess in his case he is just doing

RewriteRule /search/(.+) /search.php?variable=$1

[php_daemon]

Most likely yes, at least I think he is.