Search Engine Friendly URLs in PHP Without Mod_Rewrite

ETbyrne · 11-14-2008, 06:32 PM

I wrote a tutorial on how to make nice looking, search engine friendly URLs in PHP without using Mod_Rewrite.

Basically you can make a URL that normally looks like this:

Code:

http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?page=about&user=Evan&index=2

Look like this:

Code:

http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/about/Evan/2

Here is the link to the article:
> http://www.evanbot.com/article/fancy...-mod_rewrite/3

tony · 11-14-2008, 11:05 PM

thanks, definitely would look into it.

Enfernikus · 11-15-2008, 01:13 AM

You don't necessarily need to get rid of the file from the string for instance

PHP Code:


			
<?php

function getURL( $num = 0 )
{
    $arURL = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    return ( isset( $arURL[$num + 1] )) ? $arURL[$num + 1] : false;
}

?>

Going on, this might be an appealing way of circumventing some of the problems associated with mod_rewrite but let's say your system depends on modules ( as do many ) so that you're unfriendly url looks like so

index.php?mod=user&act=login

Your friendly-esk URL would look like so

index.php/mod/user/act/login

or

index.php/user/login

Using mod_rewrite you can achieve domain.com/login which looks still more appealing then any of the url's your method. I'm not trying to defame your attempt to come up with alternatives to mod_rewrite merely state that mod_rewrite is much more flexible and gives much more control for urls.

ETbyrne · 11-15-2008, 04:47 PM

@Enfernikus: Yes. You are definitely right, Mod_Rewrite is much more powerful than this method. But, the two methods could easily be used together to be more powerful that ether one alone! Again, a good example of this would be how CodeIgniter handles URLs.

You could use the following Mod_Rewrite code in a .htaccess file to remove the index.php:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|img|robots\.txt|anotherdir)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

parsaman · 12-08-2008, 08:39 PM

hi

i have a problem to use this module for change my link to seo.
i have a simple link:www.domain.com/product_desc.php?id=number
to :www.domain.com/product/number
I use this rules:
RewriteRule ^product/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ product_desc.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
I change ([0-9]+) or (.*) or ([^.]+)and etc..
and i test similar flag too.[QSA]..
but not successfull because my order page show without picture and css and was added product/ in first other links in page
please help me to skip
thanks
i use - instead / in this method it worked.why?

Izym · 12-09-2008, 08:33 PM

I usually make a class that works either way and auto checks if the url is with or without mod_rewrite. Could post a tutorial on making such class if people want.

tony · 12-09-2008, 10:50 PM

Izym, I would be really interested in that tutorial, since I am also barely starting in this url rewrite realm.