I refer back to this question, http://www.experts-exchang
I got my answer there, but I'm just curious to know how people build sites using mod_rewrite. I'm using RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/$ $1.php [L] which is working great, but what do people do for sub-sections?
Say I've got my about page as:
www.site.com/about/ which is actually
www.site.com/about.php
Then within the about page I've got sub-sections which are currently:
www.site.com/what-we-do.ph
www.site.com/company-histo
Which I want something like this:
www.site.com/about/whatwed
www.site.com/about/history
What do people normally do in this situation, would you put them in manually, like this?
RewriteRule ^about/history/$ company-history.php
Or is there some way of doing this quicker?
Just curious, I'm pretty green on PHP at the moment, just trying to get my head round everything!
Thanks
Chris
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I'm not sure what you mean, i've currently got:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)/$ $2.php [L]
The page is called www.site.com/what-we-do.ph
and my link goes to www.site.com/about/what-we
but it's not working?
What should I link to on my page and how does it know it's part of the about section if the files are all in the same root?
Your posted link does not have a trailing slash, but the regular expression requires the slash. May be you'd lik to remove it:
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)$ $2.php [L]
> What should I link to on my page and how does it know it's part of the about section
That is something you should know, so that you can build a link like <a href="/about/what-we-do">
since there is no trailing slash and hence the rules will be
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)$ $2.php [L]
What should I link to on my page and how does it know it's part of the about section if the files are all in the same root?
you should link on your page as www.site.com/about/what-we
It does not know about the 'about' section that means even if you have
www.site.com/contact/what-
www.site.com/what-we-do.ph
I see, I get it now after this:
It does not know about the 'about' section that means even if you have
www.site.com/contact/what-
www.site.com/what-we-do.ph
Just out of curiousity what does the number mean at the end $1.php / $2.php ?
Thanks
@babuno5
Absolutely no problem, I'm doing the same (open and do other things first) quite often. :-)
> It does not know about the 'about' section that means even if you have ....
Correct. /whatever/what-we-do will resolve,too (assuming that no one knows that, it should be no problem). You can do further checks on $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in PHP of course and return with the header() function a 404 not found, if desired.
$n is a backreference. It contains the matched result from within (....) parenthesis of a regular expression. $1 contains the value of the first (...), $2 of a second (...) group.
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by: babuno5Posted on 2009-01-21 at 09:43:23ID: 23431940
Actually the way you have things
then you have to rewrite all the urls by specifying each like what you have done
RewriteRule ^about/history/$ company-history.php
The other option is to follow some convention
For example:
www.site.com/what-we-do.ph
www.site.com/company-histo
which will be rewritten as
www.site.com/about/what-we
www.site.com/about/company
so in the above case you will just have to write one rewrite url
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)/$ $2.php [L]