help need for url rewriting

hello Gurus

I need a help for URL Rewriting of a link

product.php?catid=2&subcatid=Garden-Shed-Kits

want to make

product/Garden-Shed-Kits


any body pls help me

thanks in regards

 

try this to edit your .htaccess file
use this site: http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php

might work if your host allows you to make changes to .htaccess

if it doesn't work...then you might have to do it with php.

 

Well, URL rewriting is generally done with Apache's mod_rewrite module.

There is no way to make product/Garden-Shed-Kits into product.php?catid=2&subcatid=Garden-Shed-Kits, because the 2 is missing. You could translate product/2/Garden-Shed-Kits into that though.

Here's an example of a rewrite rule:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#Don't rewrite if the requested resource is a real file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
#Don't rewrite if the requested resource is a real directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#Rewrite only if the request starts with 'product'
RewriteCond $1 ^product
RewriteRule RewriteRule ^product/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ product.php?catid=$1&subcatid=$2 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

The official reference is at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Hope that helps!
--
Dan Bernardic

 

If you still want to exclude the 2 from the "pretty" URL, you could let PHP handle the redirection by looking up which category the subcategory belongs to, assuming there isn't any ambiguity.

So, building on dabaR's .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^product/ router.php

PHP:

In router.php you'd then check $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], extract the subcategory, look up which category the product is in, then set $_GET and $_REQUEST accordingly and include product.php. This gives you a lot more flexibility than having everything in the .htaccess file.