HTACCESS Redirection using modrewrite
Thu, 05/21/2009 - 08:33
Please can someone help me with a rule (or rules) that will redirect all incoming requests to my application to a particular page called index.php using the following format:
http://whatever.com/controller/action/parameter1/parameter2/parameter3/........../parameter N
Thanks in anticipation.
I found following from google: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484998/htaccess-at-any-length
I think you will never actually have unlimited number of parameters. You probably should go with the solution, where you use "controller", "action" and "params". Params will contain every parameter from 1 to N. You can parse it with php. I've used solution similar to it and works fine.
This is just a simple example although there are many different possible implementations:
in your .htaccess
RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?query=$1 [L,QSA]
in your index.php
require_once('includes/prepend.inc.php');
$query = '';
if (isset($_GET['query'])) $query = $_GET['query'];
// override your path info
QApplication::$PathInfo = $query;
// controller is in index 0, action in 1. parameters are 2 onwards
$strController = QApplication::PathInfo(0);
$strAction = QApplication::PathInfo(1);
switch($strController) {
case "page": include('bla bla bla'); break;
default: include('defaultpage.php'); break;
}
Then if you trigger something like http://www.yourdomain.com/page/view/2/contact.html
the controller will be 'page', action will be 'view', parameters will be 2 and contact.html.
Warning: be careful when you use built-in QCubed Form Drafts and stuff, they are using QApplication::PathInfo(0) by default to get the id parameter. You have to change it according your implementation rules.
Hope this helps.
Thanks so so so so so so much revvi, trying it out now and will get back to you if I run into any form of stress :D
I love QCUBED! Though its killing me here with loads and loads of OOP thinking :D....