Re-Routing Query String in PHP

Question

I have a website that has many URLs that look like this:

https://www.website.com/view?id=56
https://www.website.com/category?name=music

Which I would like to look like this:

https://www.website.com/view/56
https://www.website.com/category/music

This website is deep into development and it is too late to switch to a framework that makes this simpler.

My question is: What is the simplest way to do this (again, without using Klien or Composer, or any other framework-type things)? Perhaps something in .htaccess or something along those lines.

Thanks! Eric

jeprubio · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-29 02:48:14Z

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You can enable mod_rewrite in your apache config and rewrite what you want with some rules.

Try this ones:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^view/([0-9-]+)/?$ view?id=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^category/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ category?name=$1 [NC]

edited Dec 29, 2017 at 2:48

answered Dec 29, 2017 at 2:35

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Eric Phillips Over a year ago

Thank you, I'll try this

Eric Phillips Over a year ago

I tried it and it did not work. The page is loading but without any CSS or PHP (just the plain html)

jeprubio Over a year ago

Could you post your css url?

Eric Phillips Over a year ago

Sorry but it's not online yet because it is still being developed. I'll keep trying different things

Eric Phillips Over a year ago

Actually, I figured it out. It was looking for files inside a folder called /view/ which doesn't exist. Thank you for your help!

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