Why???

[patch2112]

Hello all,

I've often used...

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RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ index.php?page=$1

... in .htaccess, then PHP to grab the page name...

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$page = $_GET['page']

So a URL of www.domain.com/test.html outputs the $_GET['page'] variable as "test". Now, I have a site that all the existings pages have .php extension, but I want to do the same thing. When I do this in htaccess...

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RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ index.php?page=$1

And an URL like www.domain.com/test.php, my PHP script outputs "index" as the $_GET['page'] variable.

I've tried lots of things, but can't crack it. Any help PLEASE???

Thanks a million!
Philip

[patch2112]

Sometimes, you fight things for hours, then find the answer seconds after posting for help

Solution for later generations is that the request gets processed twice through, so add a condition to stop if already has index.php in it...

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]

Thanks anyway!
Philip