Url rewriting without mod-rewrite?

PHP
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Hi, I want to do some url rewriting but i don’t really want to use mod_rewrite. I used to work for a company and i’m sure one of the dev’s did some rewtie work using a php script…so all requests went to cone page like site.com/categories.php?id=12 and then categories did some stuff and the resulting url ended up being something like site.com/sportswear…

any ideas how I could achieve this…i’m almost thinking I could have categories.php grab the $_GET, look up the db for the category name and retireve all info i need and then do some sort of rediect and utulise the info i got form the query somehow.

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If you really don’t want to use mod-rewrite, then you can use the approach that IPB uses.

Links are constructed like so: http://yoursite.com/index.php?/Page/Product

Then in your code you take everything after ‘?’, split it by ‘/’ and run the relevant file.

Not the same, but very similar.

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Sorry again…I was still trying to access the pages through .page.php?cat=prdouct and expecting it to change the url…when i go page/Product it works fine!!!

Thanks

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hmm,

I kind of followed the article I posted above but it’s not working…The htaccess file is definitely being called as if i put garbage in there and any page in the directory it sits in gives me a 500 error…upon removing the garbage it’s all ok again- i’m pretty sure this means it’s being called…i’ve also chmod all the permissions to 777 just to make sure it’s being called.

so the format of my link is:

page.php?cat=People

and the rewrite stuff is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^cat/([^/\.]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1 [L]

is this correct?

I’m, kind of thinking it should be:

RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1 [L]

to match the page in the page.php part of the url but that doesn’t work either.

I’m not sure what the rewrite rule tried to match…anything after the ? or just anything in the complete url ?

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HI, thanks for the reply,

So once the request gets to index.php how do it get the url looking like i want?

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Are there ways to do this without mod_rewrite? Yes, and no. In reality the simple thing to do is to use mod_rewrite. As for using PHP alone, no that is not possible. The server must send the request to the PHP file in same way.

You will need at least one mod_rewrite rule to send the request to PHP.


RewriteEngine On

# Point all non-existing files/folders to index.php
# Then have PHP parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .? index.php [QSA,L]
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Ah it’s ok…just found this:

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite

answers my question