How to execute a PHP web page without the .php extension in the URL?

Question

Sorry for noob question, can\'t understand from what I should search.

I\'m making a site with that page product.php?id=777
I\'d like it to be pro

Answer 1

This is something that frameworks like CodeIgniter and Zend accomplish with ease, but can still be accomplished with just Apache's mod_rewrite, as others have suggested. Basically, use a .htaccess like this to direct all traffic to a one page:

    RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond                     %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond                     %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule                 ^(.*)$ index.php?_url=$1 [QSA,L]

Once you get on that page you can parse that _url variable, which can be whatever format you want, and handle the request appropriately.