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

Firstly, you need alter your artists table, adding a new column for define an alias for artists, like 'david-matthews-band', create an index unique to prevent confusions with homonym artists.

You need edit your profile.php to find artists by alias, like website.com/profile.php?q=david-matthews-band

Create a rewrite rule to transform website.com/profile/david-mattews-band to website.com/profile.php?q=david-matthews-band:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^profile/*  profile.php?q=$1