mod_rewrite $_GET

Question

I have a FrontController expecting two $_GET params:

controller
action

A typical call to the site would look like thi

Answer 1

There are 2 parts to getting this working. If you are working with PHP and Apache, rewrite engine must be available on your server.

In your user folder put a file named .htaccess with these contents:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Then your index.php you can use the REQUEST_URI server variable to see what was requested:

If someone requested /start/register, then assuming all the above code is in the html root, the $path variable would contain start/register.

I'd use the explode function on $path using the / as a separator and pull the first element as register.

The rewrite code has the benefit of working with filenames and directory names.