Fetch address - write it to .htaccess for NOVICE!

write to .htaccess

[le007]

Hey all,

say my site after going through a search comes up with this address:
[mysite.com...]

how could I get it sent through .htaccess

like with this:

if I put this in .htaccess instead of [mysite.com...]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^email$ index.php?locate=email

the person would only need to type:
[mysite.com...]

Somebody please tell me how to do the same for this:
[mysite.com...]

so they'd only have to type in:
[mysite.com...]

How can the PHP do this on the fly? I really dunno how to do it... fetch it from the db and write it etc - complete novice... I have a mysql db set up with the data in it already.

Thanks!

PS I've tried this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(/([^/]+))?$ index.php?locate=results&city=$1&state=$3&minp0&max=9&othercritera=%&moregoeshere

I tried the above and when I typed in
mywebsite.com/state

it worked but when I typed in
mywebsite.com/state/city it didnt

ALSO how can I have to parsed through the php so
mywebsite.com/state/city appears in the address rather than
index.php?locate=results&city=$1&state=$3&minp0&max=9&othercritera=%&moregoeshere

Thank you

[jdMorgan]

You'll need to change the links on your pages to the 'friendly' format, either by saving and retrieving those friendly URLs in the db records, or by using something like preg_replace in the PHP code that produces the link. The on-page links absolutely define the URL, and mod_rewrite cannot 'change' it.

What mod_rewrite can do, is to 'map' one of those friendly URLs, when it is requested from your server, to the correct script/query string call needed to produce the page for that friendly URL.

More info here [webmasterworld.com], including the process to 'clean-up' the unfriendly' URLs in your last question.

Jim

[le007]

Hey jd, thanks for getting back to me.

I get what you mean that mod_rewrite only works if someone types in the specific url - it redirects it so to speak.

The preg_replace though, I need to get this in the php so as the new url will be in the address.