i have a url like this.
http://www.somesite.com/community.php?id=4 for id number 4 would equal Washington for id number 5 would equal Denver for id number 6 would equal New York
I would like the url to be rewritten like this.
http://www.somesite.com/washington for id = 4 http://www.somesite.com/denver for id = 5 is this possible?
How would I go about doing it?
Have a look at mod_rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
You can, for example, do it like this:
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule washington community.php?id=4 [L,QSA] RewriteRule denver community.php?id=5 [L,QSA] This would, of course, lead to a LOT of rewrite rules if you have much cities. So, a IMHO smarter way would be to rewrite the URI slug to community.php and lookup the ID from some sort of database:
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCOnd %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule /?([a-z-]+) community.php?city=$1 [L,QSA] HTH
