Removing query string from url in php

Question

Lest say i have a link and when some one click on that link it redirect the person to the following page

http://localhost/install.php?act=go

now i just want to remove everything after ? so that person doesn't see the actual query string behind it or is there any way to encode the characters and make it look different in browser

Answer 1

You can add a mod_rewrite rule to your htaccess something like
RewriteRule ^install/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)$ /install.php?act=$1
that way /install/go takes you to the destinantion