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Normally, the practice or very old way of displaying some profile page is like this:
www.domain.com/profile.php?u=12345 where u=12345 is the user id.
In recent years, I found some website with very nice urls like:
www.domain.com/profile/12345 How do I do this in PHP?
Just as a wild guess, is it something to do with the .htaccess file? Can you give me more tips or some sample code on how to write the .htaccess file?
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The generateSeoURL() function automatically creates SEO friendly URL slug from the string using PHP. A title string needs to be passed as input and it returns a human-friendly URL string with a hyphen ( - ) as the word separator. $string – Required. The string which you want to convert to the SEO friendly URL.
The benefit of creating a friendly URL is that they are easier to remember and contain key words about the web page. Example: Original URL: https://portal.ct.gov/Services/Education/Higher-Education/Higher-Education-Information-and-Resources. Friendly URL: https://portal.ct.gov/SDE-HigherEd.
One way is to use the RewriteRule techniques mentioned earlier to mask query string values. One of the ways I really like is if you use the front controller pattern, you can also use urls like http://yoursite.com/index.php/path/to/your/page/here and parse the value of $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].
According to this article, you want a mod_rewrite (placed in an .htaccess file) rule that looks something like this:
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/news/([0-9]+)\.html /news.php?news_id=$1 And this maps requests from
/news.php?news_id=63 to
/news/63.html Another possibility is doing it with forcetype, which forces anything down a particular path to use php to eval the content. So, in your .htaccess file, put the following:
<Files news> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> And then the index.php can take action based on the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] variable:
<?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']; // outputs '/63.html' ?> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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