Shrinking url in PHP [closed]

Question

I'm trying to show this url http://www.xyz.com/catnew/newcat.php as http://www.xyz.com/cat. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^cat/([^/]*)$ /catnew/newcat.php?cat=$1 [L]

The original URL:

http://www.xyz.com/catnew/newcat.php?cat=3

The rewritten URL:

http://www.xyz.com/cat/3

Answer 2

look up tutorials on mod_rewrite, if your on Apache this may be the answer depending on how you want to do it.