I have 2 variables, $id and $product_name
I have urls for different products eg:
website.co.uk/product.php?id=123456
how can I change this to the product name variable:
website.co.uk/product.php?id=name+of+product
can this be done in php or will I have to use mod rewrite?
to something like
website.co.uk/product/name-of-product ?
I have seen this from another post:
RewriteRule ^product/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ product.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
if id=$1 in the line above, how does it know which variable to choose from out of $id and $product_name ? Where do I specify which variable it should use?
I now have website.co.uk/product.php?id=123456&name=name-of-product
and would like to rewrite this to:
website.co.uk/123456/name-of-product
or
website.co.uk/product/123456/name-of-product
You specify which variable to use by subpattern which is defined by () and numbered by $1 $2 in url
You can use something like
RewriteRule ^product/(/w+)/([A-Za-z]+)?$ product.php?id=$1&product_name=$2 [NC,L]
/w+ will fit 0-9A-Za-z which defines your $id[A-Za-z]+ will work for product nameYou can get these variables in PHP using $_GET['id'] to get id or $_GET['product_name'] to get product name.
mod_rewrite is not able to summon unknown information out of thin air. If you have a numeric id in your url, it cannot summon a product name out of thin air. If you use the pretty url /product/name-of-product you'll need to look up the name of the product in your database:
Use something like this in your .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^product/([^/]+)$ /product.php?name=$1 [L]
And this in your php file:
<?php
if( isset( $_REQUEST['id'] ) ) {
$name = getNameFromId( intval( $_REQUEST['id'] ) );
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
header( "Location: /product/{$name}" );
exit();
} else if( isset( $_REQUEST['name'] ) ) {
$row = getRowFromName( $_REQUEST['name'] );
if( $row === NULL ) {
require( "404.php" );
exit();
}
doStuff( $row );
} else {
//The heck? Neither of those set?
require( "404.php" );
exit();
}