How to access query string parameters after “Cleaning” your PHP REST API?

Question

To give some context, I initially started out with my api looking like this:

http://myserver/api.php?action=projects

In my api.php file I have

Answer 1

You can use these rules:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(?:action|api\.php)/([^/.]+)/?$ api.php?action=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

Answer 2

Change to this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^action/([^/\.]+)/?$ api.php?action=$1 [L, QSA]

You need the QSA parameter to keep the querystring intact. So now this is possible:

/action/projects/?my=name

Or you can do this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^action/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ api.php?action=$1&method=$2 [L, QSA]
RewriteRule ^action/([^/\.]+)/?$ api.php?action=$1 [L, QSA]

Now you will have these urls:

/action/projects/add/
/action/projects/