如何在不影响URL的情况下将页面加载到其他目录中

Question

My file structure usually goes something like this -

/images/  
/css/  
init.php  
header.php  
page1.php  
page2.php 

etc ...

After basically creating more and more pages, its becoming much more difficult to manage them because it's essentially turned the root directory into a massive list of pages.

How can I make it so the pages are placed in a folder along with its associated category like this -

/pages/category1/page1.php  
/pages/category1/page2.php  
/pages/category2/page3.php   

without it affecting the URL so it still looks like http://domain.com/page1.php

Will editing the .htaccess be the most effective method of doing this? or is there another way?

Answer 1

I created a singular php file in the root directory that basically got a PHP page from a $_GET request and then checked to see if the PHP page exists. If it did then I used REQUIRE_ONCE to get the page.

//Get page from $_GET request 
if (isset($_GET['page'])){
  $page = $_GET['page'];
}

//Create path including the page
$url = ROOT_DIR . "/pages/".$page;

//If the page exists include it, if not then show a 404 page.
if(file_exists($url)){
  REQUIRE_ONCE $url;
}else{
  REQUIRE_ONCE "/pages/404.php";
}

This allows me to access login.php in the /pages/ directory using

 http://domain.com/index.php?page=login.php

I then just rewrote the URL with .htaccess to make it more attractive.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1.php [QSA,L]

so that allows me to use

 http://domain.com/login