Mod Rewrite and Using PHP's GET for URL's When not Following the Rules

Question

I couldn\'t think of a good title for this, it\'s hard to explain. Basically, I have mod_rewrite setup on my server. It turns each ?a=1&b=2&c=3 etc into /1/2/3

Answer 1

The QSA directive is probably what you're looking for:

'qsappend|QSA' (query string append)
This flag forces the rewrite engine to append a query string part of the substitution string to the existing string, instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more data to the query string via a rewrite rule.

E.g.,

RewriteRule ^something/([0-9]+)$ something.php?id=$1 [QSA]

Will let something/9?key=val go to something.php?id=9&key=val