URL rewriting using .htaccess, query string as file name

Question

If my URL is http://www.xyz.com/index.php?view=abc then it should open http://www.xyz.com/abc.php

What should I write in .htaccess??

Thanks in advance.

Which do you want your end users to type into their browsers? index.php?view=abc (which is unusual from normal rewriting), or abc.php? The way you asked doesn't make it clear which your users will see. — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented Oct 8, 2011 at 13:06
actually I want if user will open index.php?view=abc then abc.php will be execute. and if user enters directly abc.php then he/she can not open that page. User must need to access it via index.php?view=abc. — Jaron S.
– Jaron S., Commented Oct 11, 2011 at 14:32

Czechnology · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-08 13:07:45Z

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If my URL is http://www.xyz.com/index.php?view=abc then it should open http://www.xyz.com/abc.php

You don't need .htaccess for that, simply put in index.php

$view = $_GET['view'];
if (strpos($view, '/') === false && $view != "index" && file_exists("$view.php"))
  require "$view.php";

Be sure not to have any other vulnerable php files in your root directory (but I'd recommend using other/better techniques to check the user input from the url).

If you wanted to have the rewriting the other way round, your .htaccess could look similar to this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/index.php
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+).php$  /index.php?view=$1  [L]

answered Oct 8, 2011 at 13:07

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Jaron S. Over a year ago

Thanks. Czechnology. It works. but what if I need reverse case. if some one types URL like, www.xyz.com/login.php then it should be redirect to, www.xyz.com/index.php?view=login

Czechnology Over a year ago

@user985361, isn't that exactly what's in the second part of my answer?

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