Need help with mod rewrite and $ GET

Trying to get id from mod_rewrite

[Walley]

I've mod_rewrite some links and now I can't use $_GET to get the id. What can I do with php to get my id?

http://localhost/background/category/id.html

I'm assuming one way is to get the url and get the id part out minus the html.

Tried the below just to see if I can get the url, but nothing shows.

$url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo $url;

Is there anything more simple?

Thanks.

[edited by: Walley at 5:13 am (utc) on May 1, 2009]

[Walley]

[localhost...]

Don't know the reason but I just added a different letter to it and it made a difference. Maybe because I two rewrites with the same name but their different pages.