How to Dynamically Rewrite a URL like Facebook

Question

I\'ve written my site using PHP and unfortunately the Artist profiles are currently like this:

website.com/profiles.php?id=xxx

That way I can GET the id and

Answer 1

You can use a URL "slug", whereby a record has a unique name, ie:

id     name             slug
001    Stack Overflow   stack-overflow

then you could perform a query such as:

SELECT `fields` FROM `table` WHERE `slug`='$slug'

where slug is the value from the URL.

There are alternatives as I'm sure will be provided.