rewrite url with htaccess [closed]

Answer 1

Im not sure my approach is the best way to do it but this is how I'm doing it at the moment:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?var1=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?var1=$1

Rewrites all pages to the index.php

On index.php I get the URL with: $url = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; Then I do a MYSQL search to determine what kind of page it is.

switch($pagetype){
  case "city": include('city.php');
  break; 
  case "country": include('country.php');
  break;    
}