Rewriting url after search form

I have seen this on many sites where after searching via a search form, the search result will be part of the friendly url

ie.
<form action="/find.php" method="get"> the url would be
/find.php?search=dog

However the friendly url would be
/find/dog.html

may be this can be achived through JavaScript or PHP with mod _rewrite i dont know...

Any help would be great ?

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^find\/(.+)\.html$ find.php?search=$1

Code (markup):

Untested.

 

Yes i am using that Rewrite all ready, thanks and if i had a link in my page /find/dog.html that will work great.

However if the search form is on the page /find/dog.html
after clicking the form button searching for "cat" the url will be /find/dog.html?search=cat

There must be a way to change the url to /find/cat.html
But i dont know what it is..!

 

You could do.

<form action="" method="get" onsubmit="window.location='/find/'+ this.fieldname.value +'.html'; return false;">

Code (markup):

(Replacing "fieldname" with the actual field name.)


Note that this won't work if Javascript is disabled on the client's side.

 

Spot on nico_swd and thank very much, it makes me smile.