Pretty URLs with .htaccess

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If you want to turn

http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?user=1&action=update

into

http://www.yourwebsite.com/user/1/update

You could use 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]*)/([a-z]*)$ ./index.php?user=$1&action=$2

To see the parameters in PHP:

<?php 
echo "user id:" . $_GET['user'];
echo "<br>action:" . $_GET['action'];
?>
  • The parenthesis in the .htaccess are groups that you can call later.
    with $1, $2, etc.
  • The first group I added ([0-9]*) means that it will
    get any numbers (1, 34, etc.).
  • The second group means any characters
    (a, abc, update, etc.).

This is, in my opinion, a little bit more clean and secure than (.*) which basically mean almost anything is accepted.

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