Friendly URL in php? With other pages readmore in htaccess

Question

I have 2 pages in selecting data from mysql. First page - readmore.php, to get posts with url from table posts. Second page - categories.php to get data with caturl from table categories.

readmore.php in .htaccess

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html$ readmore.php?url=$1
    RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html/$ readmore.php?url=$1

categories.php in .htaccess

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html$ categories.php?caturl=$1
    RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html/$ categories.php?caturl=$1

My problem located when get caturl htaccess redirects me to readmore.php but I want redirect to categories.php

Answer 1

You are redirecting *.html to a new url readmore.php?url=* therefor the url changes. Since the url is now readmore.php?url=* the second set of rules won't fire (there is no longer a pattern that matches *.html).

Therefor categories will never be loaded. You will need to add a parameter in your url to distinguish the different types.

So make sure all your articles (or categories) have a common part in the url to indicate it is an page of that type.

Example:

RewriteRule ^article_([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html$ readmore.php?url=$1
RewriteRule ^cat_([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+).html$ categories.php?caturl=$1

So an article that was called article_firstpost.html would link to readmore.php?url=firstpost and cat_cars.html would link to categories.php?caturl=cars