How to work php front controller using .htaccess?

Question

I did front controller using the query string.

Ex:

• http://host/controller.php?display=main,
• http://host/controller.php?display=contact_form

But I need to do it without using query string.

Answer 1

in .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    (.*) controller.php    [L]
 </IfModule>

This will reroute everything to controller.php; so you can access it like:

http://host/main
http://host/contact_form

Then in controller.php you have to parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to extract passed arguments.

Hope that helps..