URL rewriting with pure php and .htaccess

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 4:28am

I am using php and mysql for one of my project. I have two pages as:
index.php
and packages.php

I am sending id and packagename from index.php using get method and package.php is retriving it and displaying the corresponding values.

Here is the way I am receiving the value in package.php

$getpackage = $_GET[“package”];

list($packageid, $packagename) = explode(":",$getpackage);
$url = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $packageid)) . '-' . $packagename;

and here is my .htaccess file code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^package/([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/?$ package?$getpackage=$1 [QSA]

and here is the browser url output

http://localhost/abc/package?package=+1%3AHimachal+Main+

My requirement is abc/package/1/Himachal Main or …/1/Himachal-Main

I have tried many ways but i m not able to accomplish this.

Leads will be highly appreciated

Mittineague · February 9, 2018, 8:02am

Hi partap26 welcome to the forum

The rewriteRule regex looks off to me. But for a start, please post what this displays

$getpackage = $_GET["package"];
list($packageid, $packagename) = explode(":",$getpackage);
$url = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $packageid)) . '-' . $packagename;
var_dump($url);

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 8:07am

hi, I dont know where to check var_dump value but I tried it with echo $url in one of my label and the output is
1-Himachal Main

mean while I am learning for var_dump
Many Thanks

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 8:09am

var_dump($url);
also displaying the same string as "string (15) “1-Himachal Main”

"

Mittineague · February 9, 2018, 8:28am

echo, print, print_r and var_dump have a lot of similarities.

this

1-Himachal Main

doesn’t look like

http://localhost/abc/package?package=+1%3AHimachal+Main+

the “%3A” is hex for a colon “:” and the “+” look to be spaces that have been urlencode-ed.

You didn’t post that part of the code?

Anyway, if you want 1/Himachal+Main or 1/Himachal%20Main I think the appending should be a slash not a hyphen, no? And no leading or trailing space character?

$url = strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', trim($packageid))) . '/' . trim($packagename);

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 8:37am

Hi Mittineague, Many Thanks for reply…

I have resolved + and %3A is for “:” deliminator that I am using to seperate two passed values.
I am sending the values from index.php and the url is localhost/abc/index.php and some part of the code for index.php is as

 $id            = $row['packageid'];
                         $package_name  = $row['packagename'];
                         $packet        = $id.":".$package_name;
...
...

 echo     '<center><button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btndetails" name="packagestring" value="'.$packet.'"  id="'.$id .'">View Details</button></center>';

Then I am retriving the value vua get method as

 include "script-php/common.php";
   $getpackage = $_GET["packagestring"];

and seperating the values using explode function and store into corresponding variables as:

 list($packageid, $packagename) = explode(":",$getpackage);
    $url = strtolower(str_replace('', '-', $packageid)).'-'.$packagename;

It must disply the url for localhost/abc/package/1-Himachal-Main
but i m getting as:

http://localhost/joys4ever/package.php?packagestring=1%3AHimachal+Main

Here is my .htaccess file with the below code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^package/([0-9a-zA-Z']+) package?$url=$1 [L]

I am worried about .htaccess file because I have only doubt on this
and I have checked in my local xampp server for the rewrite mod is enabled or not and it is enabled.

Please tell me where is the mistake now ???

Mittineague · February 9, 2018, 8:49am

If $packageid is always a single integer and $packagename might have spaces, it looks like the strtolower(str_replace( is around the wrong variable.

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 9:09am

hi,
Sorry to say but as per my study about

str_replace(“replace”, “replace with”, “Hello replace”)

it will replace of hello replace with replace with .

the last parameter can be without space or with space. it does not matter.

any how, still the problem persists for me…

partap26 · February 9, 2018, 9:34am

hi, Actually, its my mistake that i did not upload the latest code.
Below is the latest code

$url = $packageid . "/" .strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $packagename));

and the var_dump($url); is

"string(15) “1/himachal-main”

"

Mittineague · February 9, 2018, 9:47pm

I’m afraid I may have made things more confusing while trying to understand.

To be clear, please correct me if any of this is wrong.

There is PHP code that is generating what will be used as GET query strings. eg. the “some-name=some-value” part.
htttp://example.com/some-folder/some-file.php?some-name=some-value
But you want HTTP Requests like
http://example.com/some-folder/some-value
to go to
htttp://example.com/some-folder/some-file.php?some-name=some-value
where “some-file.php” will use the GET “some-value” to determine what is output and displayed.
In this case “some-value” is an id and a name that look like folders in the browser address bar. eg.
http://example.com/some-folder/id/name

If this is so, I think the “not a directory, not a file” lines are OK. What needs to be worked out is the rewriteRule that will match the HTTP Requests.

I think the “Making the Path Part of the Query String” at the bottom of this page is what you want
https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteQueryString

John_Betong · February 9, 2018, 11:12pm

Maybe add a default to restrict malicious URLs

// PHP 7

$getpackage = $_GET['packagestring']] ?? '404-not-found';

// Not PHP 7
$getpackages = isset( $_GET['packagestring'] ) ? $_GET['packagestring'] : '404-not-found';


$packages = array(
'home',
'blog',
'aboutus',
'contact'
);

// needle, haystack
if ( in array( $packagestring,  $packages ) ) ):
   // No problem
else:
   // Beware
endif;

Edit:
Amended and unable to test on this tablet

partap26 · February 10, 2018, 3:27am

Hahaha,
Many Thanks, Its interesting.

I am running the project in local mahcine using Xampp and I enabled rewrite module in .congfig file. OKay,

I have a project name abc(folder name) that contains project files with the below directory structure:

abc–
index.php
package.php
login.php
…
etc

css–
style.css
style1.css
…
etc

js–
some js files

img–

etc

When i load the project, index.php is the first page to be loaded and its working fine…
I have project id in index.php page and this is the way to pass to package.php

 while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                         $imgpath       = "img/packages/id-" .$row['packageid']."/1.jpg";
                         $night         = $row['packageduration'] - 1;
                         $id            = $row['packageid'];
                         $package_name  = $row['packagename'];
                         $packet        = $id.":".$package_name;
                         echo '<div class="form-group row">';
					 echo '<div class="offset-sm-12 col-sm-12">';
                                         
                                         echo     '<center><button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btndetails" name="packagestring" value="'.$id.'"  id="'.$id .'">View Details</button></center>';
					 echo '</div>';
				       echo '</div>';
    }
              }

This is the way to get vlaues of index.php in package.php

session_start();
ob_start();
 include "script-php/common.php";
 
 if(!isset($_GET["packagestring"])){
     header('location:index.php');
 }elseif (isset($_GET["packagestring"])) {
      $getpackage = $_GET["packagestring"];
      echo $getpackage;
}

for index.php the url is:
localhost/abc/iindex

and for package.php the url is:
localhost/abc/package?packagestring=1

but i need localhost/abc/package/1 only

as packagestring is the global variable passed by index.php and retriving in package.php via $_GET[‘packagestring’];

here is the .htaccess code

Options +Indexes 
Options         +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine   On 
RewriteCond     %{REQUEST_FILENAME}     !-f 
RewriteCond     %{REQUEST_FILENAME}     !-d 
RewriteRule ^package/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/?$ package.php?packagestring=$1
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

First rewrite rule to convert the get value url into proper way
and second for hiding the extension(.php)

If i check manually with http://localhost/abc/package/1, my css,js,imgs does not load
But the thing is that why i need to enter it manually, it should automatically convert to localhost/abc/package/1 by .htaccess

Now come to your reply:
Frist point is correct some name means $_GET variable name that contains some-value
htttp://example.com/some-file.php?some-name=some-value (somefilename = package.php, some-name = packagestring, some-value = 1)

I want http://example.com/some-file/some-value (not some -folder)

partap26 · February 10, 2018, 7:00am

Hi to all,
I have resolved the issue by making some changes in php function and .htaccess…

Many Thanks for your valuable support

system · May 12, 2018, 2:01pm

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