使用htaccess和PHP重写URL

Question

I'm a beginner to htaccess. I have a url

www.example.com/article/details?id=2&category=sports&subcategory=cricket&url=ricky-ponting

I'm trying to rewrite this URL in htaccess. I want the above url should be formatted as:

www.example.com/sports/cricket/ricky-ponting

I want to hide article, details and id from the URL

I don't know how to create this URL. Is it possible to handle the hidden ID parameter in URL in backend using PHP?

Thanks in advance. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Put a htaccess file in project root by following code.

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on                       
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|forums|images|css|downloads|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?$1 [L,QSA] 

now you can customize your url. User your get parameter after controller and method. like: www.example.com/article/details/sports/cricket/ricky-ponting