Using trailing slashes as GET variables in PHP with .htaccess

Question

I'm currently trying to create a .htaccess file that essentially converts this:

[From] http://www.example.com/pagename.php?1=name&2=email&3=hash
[To] http://www.example.com/pagename/name/email/hash

Which can then be read in PHP as $name = $_GET[1]; $email = $_GET[2] and so on...

Where pagename is equal to the filename without the file extension and then every trailing slash after that is set as a new GET variable incrementing by one (in a way that you could theoretically define unlimited trailing slashes and it would continue to increment these $_GET variables by one.

Anyone know how?

No time for "real" answer right now, but: search for PATH_INFO here on SO. — VolkerK
– VolkerK, Commented Nov 8, 2015 at 19:41

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-08 20:12:17Z

1

If you want there to be an arbitrary number of variables, you need to turn on Multiviews then add some code to your php scripts to look at the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] variable. So something like this:

$data = explode("/",trim($_SERVER["PATH_INFO"],"/"));

$length = count($data);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $length; $i++) {
  $_GET[$i] = $data[$i-1];
}

to populate the $_GET variable with all the path elements.

Then in htaccess, you need something like this to append the php extension:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(/.+)$ /$1.php$2 [L]

answered Nov 8, 2015 at 20:12

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Jordan Over a year ago

Awesome, this works a treat! I will never forget this implementation.

Jordan Over a year ago

@JohnLin I have a new problem: So far I'm using this HTACCESS file to process my variables: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(/.+)$ /$1.php$2 [L] This is an example of one of my URLs example.com/browse/search/queryhere Basically I now need to implement this into a form where the form submits and places the GET variable in place of queryhere in the same format as the rest of the URL... Any ideas? I'm getting example.com/browse/search/?q=something which isn't what I need.

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