php, url hiding with the .htaccess

Question

This is the real url:

http://web/app/index.php?id=1

Here I have used current .htaccess and working fine with me.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

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

Now the url is : http://web.com/app/index/i and working fine

but here is the problem the real url

http://web.com/app/index.php?id=1&name=abc

How can I set mention url with .htaccess for keep it short or any other good solution for hiding URL-. is it possible to show user only one url like , http://web.com/app but it could go to other pages while the url stay one url static.

Answer 1

If we say, good practice is to rewrite everything to one index page, like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

then in your index.php you get uri by $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] :

http://example.com/app -> $uri = /app
http://example.com/app/sub-app -> $uri = /app/sub-app

but also query string applies to the $uri variable:

http://example.com/app/?a=1&b=3 -> $uri = /app/?a=1&b=3

in this case, if you want to examine just uri part before ? question mark:

$realRri = strtok($uri,'?'); // and you have '/app/' instead of '/app/?a=1&b=3'

next you can examine and manipulate $uri;

Example:

$trimmedUri = trim($realRri, '/');

if ($trimmedUri == 'app')
{
    // you can show app page
}
elseif ($trimmedUri == 'contact') 
{
    // show contact
}
else 
{
    // show 404 page not found
}


// you can have some dynamic also also

if (is_file($filePath = 'custom-page/'.$trimmedUri))
{
    include $filePath;
}
else 
{
    // 404 page
}

Final Code (regarding your current script)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f

#rewrite php file
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ $1.php 
#rwwrite with id
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ $1.php?id=$2 
#rewrite with id and name
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ $1.php?id=$2&name=$3