Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/02/06 16:31

Okay I have been futzing with this for a bit, so a request other viewpoints.

Using a website database and you want to present with static URLs so a
call to:

http://www.example.com/frontend.php?id=2

Becomes:

http://www.example.com/page/2

With .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^page/([\d]*) frontend?id=$1 [L]

Ok, that takes care of static link in a webpage, but what if you want to
get a page as a result of some form query and still want the result to
appear as a static URL? Say a page selector form a could go to a
intermediate parsing script like:

<form action="http://www.example.com/q2url.php">
<select name="id">
<option value="25">Some page</option>
....

Where q2url.php is:

$id = $_GET['pageID'];
$redirect = "http://www.example.com/page/$id";
header("Location: $redirect");

So the result will appear again as a static:
http://www.example.com/page/25

Or is there another way to do this with a rewrite rule. If so any
advantages/disadvantages?



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Jonathan
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