Routing URLs in PHP

Question

I\'m working on a web page project. I decided to use Apache, PHP (5.1.7, version imposed by my service provider) and Dwoo (templating) for this purpose.

I want to ro

Answer 1

Like trolskn (+1) describes:

Use mod_rewrite to route everything to a single index.php file. Then check the variable in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] within this file to dispatch to the required handler.

But I found the following .htaccess (placed in the folder with the index.php which should "consume" everything after it) much more helpful:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Also I would like to note that you might encounter the message

.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled
or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

This can easily be solved with sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart (source)

Answer 2

You might want to use PEAR's Net_URL_Mapper.

Answer 3

Use mod_rewrite to route everything to a single index.php file. Then check the variable in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] within this file to dispatch to the required handler.

This configuration will enable mod_rewrite, if it's installed:

DirectorySlash Off
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  -d
RewriteRule  ^.*$  -  [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  -f
RewriteRule  ^.*$  -  [L]

RewriteRule ^.*$    index.php [L]