Mod-rewrite urls + GET

[Mundo]

Say my URL is http://www.example.com/catalog.php?category=hats&prodID=53

 

and I use Mod-rewrite to make it http://www.example.com/catalog/hats/53/

 

Can I still use $_GET['category'] to get the parameters? If so, how?

 

 

[AbraCadaver]

Say my URL is http://www.example.com/catalog.php?category=hats&prodID=53

 

and I use Mod-rewrite to make it http://www.example.com/catalog/hats/53/

 

Can I still use $_GET['category'] to get the parameters? If so, how?

 

You sort of have that backwards.  The URL on your page or that you put into the browser would be: http://www.example.com/catalog/hats/53/ and you would configure Apache to rewrite it into: http://www.example.com/catalog.php?category=hats&prodID=53, so yes you would have those vars in $_GET.

[Rifts]

I think he wants user friendly URLs

[AbraCadaver]

I think he wants user friendly URLs

Yes, but my point is that the thinking is backwards.  http://www.example.com/catalog/hats/53/ is the friendly URL, but that doesn't exist on the server, so the server rewrites it to: http://www.example.com/catalog.php?category=hats&prodID=53 internally.

[laffin]

 

RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/(\d+) catalog.php?category=$1&prodID=$2

transforms the first to the second, thats all rewrite does.

[AbraCadaver]

 

RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/(\d+) catalog.php?category=$1&prodID=$2

transforms the first to the second, thats all rewrite does.

 

Correct.  So the query string: ?category=$1&prodID=$2 populates the $_GET array, which was my point.

[laffin]

Sorry, wasnt meant towards u Abra, just clarifying. Ya got your post snuck in right before mine. so appears i was responding to you, rather than the intended.

 

Personally I agree with you Abra, getting to know your terms greatly affects what responses u will get.