I currently have the working Mod Rewrite Regex:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?((?:cmd)[^/]*)/((?!(?:cmd)[.+]*)(.+)) $1?$2=$3&%1 [L]
That regex takes the following URL and transforms it into the URL immediately below:
www.site.com/cmd1/param/cmd2/param2/stillparam2
and turn it into www.site.com/index.php?cmd1=param&cmd2=param2/stillparam2
That works fine, but I would also like to create another negative lookahead assertion to ensure that a URL block - ie a /texthere/
param - doesn't include an underscore. An invalid string might look like: www.test.com/cmd/thing/getparam_valuehere
; the regex should parse the cmd/thing
as a key and value pair and ignore the rest of the string. I would then also write another RewriteRule to have the block of the URL with the underscore in it added as another URL parameter. The following URL translation would occur:
www.test.com/cmd/param1/cmd2/directory/param2/sortorder_5
www.test.com?cmd=param1&cmd2=directory/param2&sortorder=5
Please let me know if I have not been clear enough. Any help would be great.
NB: I have tried using a negative lookahead nested inside the one already present - (?!(?!))
- and have tried using an |
on two negative lookaheads, but neither solutions worked. I thought that perhaps something else was more fundamentally wrong?
Thanks all.
Edit: I have also tried the following - which I really thought would work (but obviously, didn't!)
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?((?:cmd)[^/]*)/((?!(?:cmd)[.+]*)(?![.+]*(?:_)[.+]*)(.+)) $1?$2=$3&%1 [L]
That does the following:
www.test.com/cmd/param1/sortorder_1/
translates to
www.test.com?cmd=param1/sortorder_1/
When it should instead become: www.test.com?cmd=param1&sortorder=2/
. The rule to translate /sortorder_2/
into&sortorder=2
has not yet been created, but you can hopefully see what I mean).
After about four days of experimenting, I ended up with a somewhat different solution than I had originally expected to find. I simply removed all the actual URL manipulation to my index.php file and routed all requests through there. Here is my (much cleaner) .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?path=$1 [QSA,L]
and here is the block of code I used to parse the entered URL:
preg_match_all('|/([A-Za-z0-9]+)((?!/)[A-Za-z0-9-.]*)|', $_GET['path'], $matches);
// Remove all '$_GET' parameters from the actual $_GET superglobal:
foreach($matches[0] as $k => $v) {
$search = '/' . substr($v, 1);
$_GET['path'] = str_replace($search, '', $_GET['path'], $count);
}
// Add $_GET params to URL args
for ($i = 0; $i < count($matches[1]); $i++) {
self::$get_arguments[$matches[1][$i]] = $matches[2][$i];
}
// Retrieve all 'cmd' properties from the URL and create an array with them:
preg_match_all('~(cmd[0-9]*)/(.+?)(?=(?:cmd)|(?:\z))~', $_GET['path'], $matches);
if (isset($matches[1][0])) {
return self::$url_arguments = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);
On a URL like this:
http://localhost/frame_with_cms/frame/www/cmd/one/cmd2/two/cmd3/three/cmd4/four/getparam_valuepart1_valuepart2/cmd5/five/
It successfully produces these separate arrays which I then use to handle requests:
Array
(
[getparam] => valuepart1_valuepart2
)
Array
(
[cmd] => one/
[cmd2] => two/
[cmd3] => three/
[cmd4] => four/
[cmd5] => five/
)
Thanks to all who took the time to read and reply.
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