.htaccess从代码中打印“漂亮” URL

Question

Yes, I know, there are tons of questions like this, but I can't find one which solves my problem so at cost of receiving downvotes I'm going to ask this again. Even a duplicate link may help me.

This is a job that I've never done before, I have this kind of URL demo.html?code=IT-ROM-FCO where:

• IT is the IATA code for "Italy"
• ROM is the IATA code for "Rome"
• FCO is the IATA code for "Aeroporto di Roma Fiumicino" .

I have to rewrite the above URL to display like this airports/italy/rome/aeroporto-di-roma-fiumicino , the strings for the result are coming from an API service.

I know the simple rewrite to change products.php?id=7 to products/7 but I never done such task (get an URL - retrieve some data in PHP w/ the given code - "pretty" print the new url)

Answer 1

I don't think this is a job for .htaccess. mod_rewrite needs to do its work before PHP is even invoked.

Send the request to PHP, but then instead of rendering HTML build the "pretty" URL you want and respond with a redirect header to that URL.

If you absolutely need to do this with a rewrite, you might consider building a static map of codes -> URLs and having mod_rewrite consult that map.