URL use "/" instead of "?" to send variables

[rahulephp]

Hi,
In normal php, We use ?id=123 to send variable through URL.

So, the URL would be www.example.com/page.php?id=123 and then we use $_REQUEST['id'] to receive the variable on another page.

But my question is, if I use "/" instead of "?" (Ex: www.example.com/page.php/id/123), then how to receive the "id" on page.php.

$_REQUEST['id'] doesn't works in this case.

Thank you in advance

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$_REQUEST['id'] doesn't works in this case.

Does the browser still go to page.php in this case?
I doubt it.

[rahulephp]

Not sure.
But i have seen these kind of URL's in lots of websites and just wondering if it'll be possible in any ways.

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i think mod_rewrite allows this.
Don't know much about it but Apache only

[rahulephp]

I tested the above code and it shows 404 error page.
Yes, I need to modify .htaccess file

Can anyone please assist me how to modify .htaccess file to remove the "?"

I'll be thankful to you

[ronsplinter]

@rahulephp
this is done by the rewrite module of apache and this handles regular expressions. You have to put a rule like this in your .htaccess file on the root of your website:

RewriteRule ^product/([0-9]+)$ /page.php?id=$1

^ means the start of the url after www.example.com/
$ means the end of the page.

www.example.com/product/123 will be converted by the server to: www.example.com/page.php?id=123

In PHP you use the normal $_GET['id'] variable. The rewrite module must be enabled by apache... This is mostly used to make the url format independent of the serverside scripting language so the .php in the url is not logical. Thats why i changed it to product/ . The .htaccess starts with

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
Here all the rewrite rules..
...
...

Hope this will help you on your way.

[rahulephp]

@ronsplinter
Thanks ronsplinter,
This is one of the best answer i was searching for.

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

There are nearly limitless things you can do with mod_rewrite under Apache. For example, I have a click counter on my site that keeps track of the number of clicks to each linked news post, using a link id. Originally the URL looked like this:

http://mysite.com/clicky.php?id=###

I wanted it to be more search engine-friendly, so I rewrote it to this:

http://mysite.com/news###/title_of_news_post.php

It still goes to the original click.ph URL, but the user doesn't know that, and Google indexes thestatic-looking link a lot more easily.

I'm in the process or rewriting my entire site to use mod_rewritten URLs, to improve SEO.

[rahulephp]

@HaLo2FrEeEk
Hey HaLo2FrEeEk,
if you are going to rewrite your entire site to use mod_rewritten URLs and if your website has ranked in SERP for good keywords then think it once. The URLs of all you website pages will be changed and the URLS will suppose to be new pages. And in that case you'll lost your previous ranking.

[rahulephp]

I'm thankful for your good response on this but now i want to close the topic here.
Thanks once again