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[linuxprogramming4ever]

I have the faint remembrance that it was possible in PHP to replace the usual ? URL paramenters by one that used / instead.
Like for example replace:

<website>/view.php?id=345

by

<website>/view.php/345 or <website>/view.php/id/345

Is this possible and how?

If not, can this be accomplished with apache's mod_rewrite?

[BlaineSch]

PHP alone cannot rewrite URL's but if you use apache's mod_rewrite PHP can get the url parameters back.

[linuxprogramming4ever]

Thanks, got it to work with mod_rewrite.

[John]

BlaineSch said:

PHP alone cannot rewrite URL's but if you use apache's mod_rewrite PHP can get the url parameters back.

Don't be so naive young grasshopper. SEF URLs with out mod_rewrite | John Ciacia

[BlaineSch]

John said:

Don't be so naive young grasshopper. SEF URLs with out mod_rewrite | John Ciacia

How would you setup the server to accept the url though? Yes you can parse through a address easily but if you don't have a mod_rewrite or something else, won't you get a 404 error for anything that is already not a file? How do you set that up on the server end?

[John]

You set the server up to do nothing - the php file exists, so the server will load that, there is no 404 error.