如何使用SEO友好的apache URL更改php URLS？

Question

So I'm pulling events from the database such as /event-detail.php?id=1, but I want it to look like /Event-Name/ instead. How do I achieve this? I know a bit about mod Apache rewrite but not enough to know if it would work here. Or am I approaching this wrong? Do I need to pull items with name instead? /event-detail.php?name=Event Name? I don't really want to do it that way even though it seems like it would be much easier.

Answer 1

It would be very hard to make it work otherwise (I think).

Try this (write this to server conf or .htaccess):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ event-detail.php?name=$1 [QSA,L] 
</IfModule>

That will rewrite urls and forward everything else than existing files and directories to event-detail.php script.

Bit more info, if user call's /myShowEvent1 that will be rewritten as event-detail.php?name=myShowEvent1 or if user call's /event/25366273 that would be same as calling event-detail.php?name=event/25366273 (that is if they do not exists in the server).