htaccess need some help

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:55 — russellharrower

Hi Guys, need a little help.
I would like to hide URL's

I want a user to be able to go to the following
http://www.example.com/news/this-is-the-news

and for it to go to
http://www.example.com/news.php?id=1

each story in the database is stored title has a URL link like this-is-the-news but the title shows This is the news. Kinda like wordpress htaccess sorry that is the best explaining I can do.

If anyone can help that would be great.

This is what i am thinking I have to do.
When the link goes to news.php instead of the id= it has to be url=this-is-the-news and then in the first PHP code I have to do a database check to see if that link is in the database.

from there I have to show the body and the title in the right area?

Would that be correct? So in basic I need to know how to hide the URL to be more SEO friendly.

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:04 — dmorison

Hi Russell, What you need to

Hi Russell,

What you need to do is pass the title through to news.php; which then selects the article based on the title rather than an ID.

In your .htaccess, you would have something like this:

RewriteRule ^news/(.*)$ news.php?title=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

And then, at the top of news.php, SELECT your article based on the title; from $_GET["title"]. You might need to strip spaces depending on how you are storing / generating your SEO friendly titles; and also make sure that they don't contain any other non-URL safe characters...

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 12:13 — russellharrower

Thanks David, just wondering

Thanks David,
just wondering to go a step further can I do something like this?

http://www.example.com/index.php?t=news&title=this-is-a-story

i am trying to work out the best way to do the URL and templates

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 12:15 — dmorison

Sure, In that case the

Sure,

In that case the RewriteRule would be...

RewriteRule ^news/(.*)$ index.php?t=news&title=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

...and then of course you can have other rules that rewrite to different values of "t".

Cheers,
David.

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 14:34 — russellharrower

I tryed the following but it

I tryed the following but it did not work

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?t=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?t=$1&title=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I then tryed this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?t=$1&title=$2 [L]

But it screws up my index.php file the CSS and JS script is not working. They seem to go to http://www.example.com/about/template/css/style.css

instead of http://www.example.com/template/.....

Thanks
Russell

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 18:27 — dmorison

Hi Russell, When you're

Hi Russell,

When you're creating a virtual directory hierarchy with .htaccess, any resources that your scripts refer to must use a fully qualified path - i.e. one that begins with "/" so that the browser knows to request the resource relative to the top level of your site - not the virtual directory that doesn't really exist.

For example; instead of:

<img src='images/logo.gif' />

...just change it to:

<img src='/images/logo.gif' />

That will be all it is!

Cheers,
David.

Mon, 11/02/2009 - 07:09 — russellharrower

This was the finial code I

This was the finial code I went with, just wish I did not have to do the news/ and iphone/ etc...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ index.php?t=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^iphone$ index.php?t=iphone [L]
RewriteRule ^shows/([^/.]+)$ index.php?t=shows&a=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([^/.]+)$ index.php?t=news&artical=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^request/([^/.]+)$ index.php?t=request&a=$1 [L]