Flat Links?

[Mantoos]

Hello =)

I have recently installed a simple blog script on http://www.mydomain.com/blog/

It's programmed with php so if I click on a category it shows http://www.mydomain.com/blog/category.php?cat=3 for instance and when I click on a blog entry i get to http://www.mydomain.com/blog/article.php?id=1 and so on.

Now, since I'm a total htaccess noob I'd like to know if it's possible with mod_rewrite to change the links to something like http://www.mydomain.com/blog/category/categoryname/ (or id if categoryname isn't possible) instead of http://www.mydomain.com/blog/category.php?cat=3

and maybe http://www.mydomain.com/blog/article/articlename/ (or id if articlename isn't possible) instead of http://www.mydomain.com/blog/article.php?id=1

Pretty bad explenation but I hope you understand what I mean=)

Thanks in advance!

[richardk]

The article/category name is possible, but it isn't as easy. See FAQ: How to change a numeric ID into a name/title.

For the IDs (in /blog/.htaccess)

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Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)/?$  ./article.php?id=$1   [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]+)/?$ ./category.php?cat=$1 [QSA,L]