htaccess用于动态网页

Question

I have a website and i am using MySQL to store and fetch data from, there is a bunch of data of different destinations (Yes this is a travel agent website) i am wondering how can i setup .htaccess file to display SEO friendly URL

For example: http://www.mywebsite.com/flights-result.php?id=10 this URL is a details page for a flight to Entebbe in Africa, i would like to have the URL for this like http://www.mywebsite.com/Africa/Entebbe.htm

And so on for them, one more thing do i need to add this for every page? the data is being update on daily basis so is there any easy way to write URL automatically?

Any help highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't really think what you are trying to accomplish has anything to do with mysql. What you are looking for is called URL rewriting. There are countless number of articles out there that could show you the direction to follow. I am not very sure which web server you are using right not. I presume it is Apache. Here is Apache module_rewrite guide.

Answer 2

Given the original URL, there isn't all the information in there to use mod_rewrite to do this completely.

So what you could do it send all web requests to a controller file, and from there parse the request uri and load the correct page.

So in htaccess, something like...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ controller.php [L]

Then in controller.php you parse the url and load the correct page.

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A different option you may prefer, (if you're flexible on the specific final URL) is to have URLs ending up looking like this:

http://www.mywebsite.com/flights/10/Africa/Entebbe.htm

This would likely be simpler to do instead of implementing a controller (although I prefer the controller for routing requests).

So in htaccess...

RewriteRule
    ^/flights/([0-9]{1,10})/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)\.htm$
    flights-result.php?id=$1&country=$2&place=$3 [L]

Then near the start of the flights-results.php file you should load the data for the id, then check that the provided "country" and "place" are correct (to stop people just entering anything here), and return a 4040 if it's not.

Remember to change all the links your app outputs to the new style as well.

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You could also, as you mentioned, hard code all these URLs into a htaccess, but that's not ideal :)