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schart

I've got username working just fine, but I have a "show more posts" button which goes to profile.php?name=$username&l=$limit + 10 So I need to rewrite that one as well.
Here is my rewrite for the /a/Username thingy:

RewriteRule ^a/([^/]+)$ profile.php?name=$1

Can anyone do anything like this where it's more like ?name=$1&l=$2 and then go /a/$1/p/$2 ?

karlpcrowley

Are you using a CMS for this? or going commando and writing your own?

schart

No just rewriting if that's what you meant? I just put the script I wrote in my .htaccess file and then /a/username work's just like /profile.php?name=username

I want profile.php?name=username&l=10 to corespond to a/username/10 ( I know I wrote /p/10 above, but it doesn't really matter

karlpcrowley

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mod_rewrite :)

schart

Thank you, but that didn't cover multiple variables. I've Google'd a bit, but I can't seem to make it work with it :/

I want
profile.php?name=Schart&l=20
To go to
/a/Schart/20

karlpcrowley

hmmm I don't know enough about mod_rewrite
I normally use one variable then break it into an array using

$url = explode('/', rtrim($_GET['url'],'/'));

that way /username/10 would equal to $url[0]='username'; $url[1]='10';

It also means you can have really long URLs

*nb the rtrim is to stop an additional slash from breaking it

TT_Mark

Firstly I don't think you're example is particularly safe, as ([^/]) matches exeverything except '/'. There are other characters you'll want to ignore as well as they are non URL safe, so it's best to write the rule with the characters you want

RewriteRule ^a/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)/([0-9]+)$ profile.php?name=$1&l=$2

This will match anything like a/Schart-Test_URL01/20

if you want the preceeding '/' before the 'a' then add one /a/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)/([0-9]+)$

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Rewrite /a/username/p/posts ?