Add $title to url with .htaccess file

Question

I recently had the following answered: .htaccess rewrite url does not work

I would like to now add the title from the db for each id to the URL too. From what I've read on the internet it seems that it is possible. Mostly I have $title in each php file which refers to the title in the db.

Currently I'm using this in my current .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect cars.php?cars_item=231 to cars/231/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+cars/cars\.php\?cars_item=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /cars/%1 [R=302,L]

# Internally forward cars/231/ to cars.php?cars_item=231
RewriteRule ^cars/([0-9]+)/?$ /cars/cars.php?cars_item=$1 [NC,L]

And the following as href: <a href=\\"cars/$id\\"/>$title</a> .

So what I wish to have as my URL is the following. Basically I need to add the title to the current URL and replace the spaces between words in title with dashes.

http://www.domain.com/cars/543/new-porsche-is-out

• cars -> subfolder
• 543 -> $id (From the database)
• new-porsche-is-out -> $title (From the database)

Answer 1

You can just change your last rule to allow title in the end:

# Internally forward cars/231/title to cars.php?cars_item=231
RewriteRule ^cars/([0-9]+) /cars/cars.php?cars_item=$1 [NC,L,QSA]