: Help with URL Rewrite I have a page that selects some info from a database and displays it with a link to a second page that uses the result to query the database, something like this: $sel=mysql_query("select

@Angela700

First create a PHP function that generates friendly URLs. Something like this would work, adjust to your liking.

function friendlyURL($id, $title) {

$string = $title;
$paramcount = func_num_args();
for ($i = 2; $i < $paramcount; $i++) {
$string .= "-" . func_get_arg($i);
}
$string = preg_replace('`&(amp;)?#?[a-z0-9]+;`i', '-', $string);
$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, "utf-8");
$string = preg_replace("`&([a-z]+);`i", "", $string);
$string = preg_replace("`['[]]`", "", $string);

$string = preg_replace(array("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/", "`[-]+`"), "-", $string);

$string = trim($string, '-');
return trim($id . "-" . $string, '-');
}


Next call the function in code replace your echo with this.

echo "<a href='/more/".friendlyURL($id, $title)."/'>$title</a>";


Next use a rewrite rule like.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^more/([0-9]+)[^/]*/?$ more.php?id= [QSA,L]

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@Gretchen104

Usually you would have a structure similar to this:
website.com/products/1/this-is-my-product-title
where 1 is the ID of your product

htaccess rule would be:

^products/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ more.php?id=&title=


In order to make a clean url you should look up str_replace or regular expressions.
(For example replace all spaces with '-', remove all weird char etc)
In addition to this, you should make sure that the title part matches the real title of the ID, and make sure the file more.php is not accessed typing more.php in URL (look into super variable $_SERVER).

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