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I am not familiar with url rewrite at all, so I have probably simple question for somebody that knows the stuff. I have ecommerce site and currently item url looks like this www.blizuecomm.net/www/item.php?id=399&ITEM-NAME I get this kind of URL with code on category page that looks like this

<a href="item.php?id=<?=$values[$i]['gitemid']?>&amp;<?=cleanString($values[$i]['gname'])?>

I get clean string using this code

<?
function cleanString($string, $separator = '-'){
$accents = array('Š' => 'S', 'š' => 's', '?' => 'Dj', 'ð' => 'dj','Ž' => 'Z', 'ž' => 'z', 'È' => 'C' , 'è' => 'c', 'Æ' => 'C' , 'æ' => 'c');
$string = strtr($string, $accents);
$string = strtoupper($string);
$string = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/', '', $string);
$string = preg_replace('{ +}', ' ', $string);
$string = trim($string);
$string = str_replace(' ', $separator, $string);
return $string;
}
?>

What should I write in .htaccess file in order to get ULR that looks like this: www.blizuecomm.net/www/ITEM-NAME or www.blizuecomm.net/ITEM-NAME

Answer 1

The easiest thing to do is probably make it look like: www.blizuecomm.net/www/id/ITEM-NAME because otherwise your item.php script isn't going to get an ID. That'll require you to add this in the htaccess file in your www folder:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /www/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /www/item\.php\?id=([0-9]+)&([^&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2? [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/(.*)$ item.php?id=$1&$2 [L,QSA,NE]