Php linking and search engine friendly urls

I have function that includes a htm file also title with the same name txt
so it looks like "domain.com/details.php?content=Aboutus"
I am thinking of changing this with sef urls like "domain.com/Aboutus"

I have the htaccess examples. But could not figure out the a href part.

Any ideas ?

 

you don't have to be bothered about the html tags (i.e. the <a href..> part)... for mod rewrite, the engine is only focusing on the actual urls and will know how to exclude the html tags.

 

What I mean by the href part is ;
when I setup modrewrite everthing works fine.
say that my link is domain.com/details.php?content=aboutus
If I call domain.com/aboutus works fine.
But my problem is what to write to href part. If I type "domain.com/details.php?content=aboutus" to href then this address comes up.
The part that I need is the Php function that will allow me to call what ever the function would be to interprete the link from normal link (details.php?content=aboutus) to sef link (domain.com/aboutus)

You see , I dont want my hrefs to be the sef type like .com/aboutus
I need a function like

<?link(aboutus);?>

Code (markup):

which will interprete the link. If modrewrite is working then address will come up as sef. If not address will comeup like old style not sef.

 

no help with this ?

 

Maybe just create a config file where you can have a setting like:

$cfg_rewrite = true;

PHP:

Then in your 'link' function you could just check the setting above like:

function make_link($link)
{
    global $cfg_rewrite;

    if ( $cfg_rewrite === true )
    {
        return $link;
    }
    else
    {
        return 'details.php?content='.$link;
    }
}

PHP:

I think I get what your saying, but maybe not.

 

Thanks.. This was exactly what I have tried to say. I will try this function. Perhaps improve a little. I will keep posting it from here..
Thanks

 

Just wanted to add: there's no 'native' PHP function that will convert your URLs for you (especially automatically), for a couple of reasons:

1) htaccess is an Apache thing. PHP needs to work with IIS and so on..
2) there's no reason why you don't want to be able to access a page by both 'URLs'.

chopsticks' example will work for 'simple' pages but once you get bigger, things will get messier...

 

Ofcourse I would like to access the URL with both ways.
The part that I need is to create a PHP function that will dedect and write the href tag.

So now by modifiying the htaccess file I can access the url as domain.com/ephesus and also domain.com/details.php?content=ephesus without doing any php work.

But the href tag has to be either href="details.php?content=ephesus" or href="/ephesus"

So I did not want to the href in the files to be either of them. I wanted to use like the chopsitcks linking function. href="<?make_link(ephesus)?>"

BYTWY; I could not get chopsticks function to work So I have revised it alittle.

// linking SEF
$cfg_rewrite = true;
function makelink($link)
{
global $cfg_rewrite;
if ( $cfg_rewrite === true )
{
echo $link;
}
else
{
echo "details.php?content=$link";
}
}
// linking SEF ends

PHP:

href tag is ;

href="<?makelink("ephesus");?>"

Code (markup):

Thank you guys..

And for the htaccess I have done ;

RewriteRule ephesus details.php?content=ephesus [L]
RewriteRule about-us details.php?content=about-us [L]

one by one.

Is there way to include all these links on one line ?
like : ^$link details.php?content=$link*

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

RewriteRule ^/(.+) /details.php?content=$1

HTH, cheers

 

cheers..