: How to change my id and name in php url How would I change the URL from from: example.com/games.php?id=27 to: website.com/games/271/game-name-here So far I have this in .htaccess: RewriteEngine

@Rivera981

As I understand, you want requests for the following URL website.com/games/271/game-name-here to be handled by games.php

For this, you may use a simpler rule.

RewriteRule ^games/(.*)$ /games.php?var= [L]


This will send all requests with /games/ to games.php. For e.g.

/games/271/game-name-here will go like this /games.php?var=271/game-name-here

Now, game-name-here is only for SEO purpose as what you actually need is only the id. So, filter the id part from the var like this -

$value=($_GET['var']);
$temp = explode('/',$value);
$id = $temp[0];


Remember, htaccess is used only for handling the URL requests. You still need to form the correct URLs in your webpages.

Additional Tip: You may also consider the following URL structure website.com/games/271-game-name-here . Here just explode the URL on a hyphen '-' instead of '/'

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