Re-write url reuse of file name as their base parameter

Question

Well it was kind of difficult what wordings for the title, yet I'm quite interested how this thing works.

Assuming that I have this .htaccess on my root folder.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

For example

I have this url that consists of whatever content it has.

www.myurl.com/foo

Then if I go to other page it would be like

www.myurl.com/foo/bar

So meaning, I'm using the foo as their base once I redirect to other pages.

So my structure of root folder is..

index.php
foo.php
bar.php

So if www.myurl.com/foo I'm opening the foo.php, but then if I access www.myurl.com/foo/bar I'm opening bar.php with a base of file name of foo.php. Logically thinking it's wrong.

But are there any way of doing this?

Real live desired result is..

www.myurl.com/campaigns

if I go to child page of campaigns it would be

www.myurl.com/campaigns/create

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

In order to accomplish this, you need a router; Apache rewrite tools are not suited to handling this alone. Typically you use a front controller (often called index.php) that everything is rewritten to, passing the whole url as a parameter. The front controller then starts the router, which fires up the correct controller to handle the request.

Your .htaccess then looks something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Take a look at the Symfony router component, and read the first chapter of the Symfony book for the general idea of how that all works.

Answer 2

Anyways, Thanks for the answer @Bryan Agee.

I've found a great site that talks about URL Rewriting, especially for the people who doesn't even know how it works including me.

To anyone interested, here's the link of it.

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/02/introduction-to-url-rewriting/

It's very easy to understand.

For the solution on my problem, here it is.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule   ^campaigns/?$             src/campaigns/index.php [NC]
RewriteRule   ^campaigns/create/?$          src/campaigns/create.php [NC]

And if I want to put parameters on the link

#RewriteRule   ^campaigns/create/(.+)$   src/campaigns/create.php?cid=$1 [L]

For furthermore understanding, visit the link above. :D