使用PHP的RESTful Web服务

Question

We have data in our database as book-id, title, year, price, author, category. We need to retrieve data from the database using php. We can retrieve data of a book with book-id=123 by giving the url: www.localhost/books/?book-id=123 through $_GET method. But my requirement is I want to see that information of book with book-id=123 when I give the url: www.localhost/books/123 I am using a Wamp server for this.

Answer 1

You will have to enable mod_rewrite for your Apache. After this you can use a rewrite rule like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /$1/?id=$2

in your .htaccess File. This rule would internally redirect books/123 to books/?id=123.

See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html