Rewrite to different kinds of php conditions

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June 18th, 2012, 04:02 PM

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Rewrite to different kinds of php conditions

How would I got about using mod_rewrite to rewrite:

www.domain.com/index.php?home to www.domain.com/home

but also have
www.domain.com/index.php?profile=John to www.domain.com/John

June 18th, 2012, 07:15 PM

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What if someone uses the name "home"?

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June 18th, 2012, 08:25 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by requinix

What if someone uses the name "home"?

That won't be permitted, we'll have a blocked list. Basically the users url will be in the DB, and that will be used to pull their profile. When someone chooses their url, it'll be checked for the words we're using to make the site work, and then throw an error if it matches one of those.

June 18th, 2012, 09:00 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HDFilmMaker2112

That won't be permitted, we'll have a blocked list.

What about future expansion, like if someone is using the name 'contest' and you wanted to use that as the slug for some new contest your hosting?

It would be better to separate them somehow, such as doing /profile/John for user profiles, or /p/John if you want it shorter.

If you do still want to go with that setup though, you might look into RewriteMap, or just rewrite all the urls to something like index.php?slug=blah and inside index.php decide if it is a profile name or a page name.

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June 18th, 2012, 10:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kicken

Looking in to Rewrite Map... I came up with this.

Code:

RewriteMap pages txt:/pagesmap.txt
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$ /index.php?${pages:$1|NOTFOUND} [PT]
#At this point wouldn't everything be sent to index?page_name_here or a 404 page?
RewriteMap profile txt:/profilemap.txt
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$ index.php?profile=${profile:$1|NOTFOUND} [PT]

How would I add in the profile call though? I guess I need some kind of Rewrite Condition, but I have no idea how to do that. I would need a condition that says if the first rewrite rule returns a NOTFOUND go to the second Rewrite Rule.

EDIT:
What about this:

Code:

RewriteMap pages txt:/pagesmap.txt
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$ /index.php?${pages:$1|profile=$1} [PT]

The problem here is I have an else statement in my pages which show up as the default page if the value doesn't match any of the if/elseif statements.

Last edited by HDFilmMaker2112 : June 18th, 2012 at 10:23 PM.

June 18th, 2012, 10:44 PM

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Now that I'm thinking about it some more, redoing the if/else statements with a matching condition probably does make sense:

I would just have to make this:

PHP Code:


		
			
/*Account Settings Page*/

elseif($_GET['settings']=="account"){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Account Settings

';

}

/*Privacy Settings Page*/

elseif($_GET['settings']=="privacy"){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Privacy Settings

';

}

/*Settings Home Page*/

elseif(isset($_GET['settings'])){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Settings

';

}

into something like this:

PHP Code:


		
			
/*Account Settings Page*/

elseif($_GET['p']=="settings" && $_GET['edit']=="account"){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Account Settings

';

}

/*Privacy Settings Page*/

elseif($_GET['p']=="settings" && $_GET['edit']=="privacy"){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Privacy Settings

';

}

/*Settings Home Page*/

elseif($_GET['p']=="settings"){

$switch="content";

$content.='

Settings

';

}

Then rewrite to /settings and /settings/account and /settings/privacy

Doing that it should be as simple as the following, right:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/?([A-Za-z0-9_]+)?/?$ /index.php?p=$1&edit=$2

That should match anything between a-Z and 0-9 with an optional / and an optional second "folder" with an optional /.

Last edited by HDFilmMaker2112 : June 18th, 2012 at 10:58 PM.

Rewrite to different kinds of php conditions

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