HaloPlayer - 6:14 am on Sep 30, 2012 (gmt 0)

Hi,
First time poster here, I came across this forum after searching for htaccess mods.

My question is about hiding the php?= in a URL, I tried a forum search and found this but it's not quite what I am after: [webmasterworld.com...]

My question is this, if a URL looks like this:
www.example.com/book.php?name=motor_car
can I use a htaccess rewrite to make it look more clean like
www.example.com/book/name/motor_car

Also does doing this create extra server load?

Thanks in advance.

[edited by: incrediBILL at 9:34 pm (utc) on Oct 7, 2012]
[edit reason] fixed URLS, use Example.com [/edit]