changing photo gallery URLs to static URLs

[RodneyB]

Hey guys,

I'm using a php photo gallery script that generates URLs like:

mywebsite.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=2

and:

mywebsite.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=2

and:

mywebsite.com/gallery/search.php?do=searchresults&string=SEARCHTERM&catid=0&quicksearch=1


I'd like to have the urls turn into either a static directory looking structure (/gallery/cat/2) or a page looking structure (/gallery/category2.html). Even better would be the category name (/gallery/catname-category.html)

/gallery/showimage/2 or /gallery/showimage2.html for the second URL and

/gallery/searchresults/SEARCHTERM/category/0/quicksearch/1

for the search terms URL.

Could anybody help me out with this?

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Also, when trying to register for this forum, I got the following error:

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INSERT INTO rewrite_groups (group_name, group_description, group_single_user, group_moderator) VALUES ('', 'Personal User', 1, 0)

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File : /home/myforums/public_html/includes/usercp_register.php

[Caterham]

I'd like to have the urls turn into either a static directory looking structure

you know that you have to change all links in your php script which generates the html output?

mod_rewrite can only take you back, if al static link was requested (i.e. the user clicks on a static link)

Even better would be the category name (/gallery/catname-category.html)

make sure, that you include the parameters in your url like /gallery/catname-category-browse-2.html
/gallery/catname-category-show-2.html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^gallery/[a-zA-Z_-]+-browse-([0-9]+)\.html /gallery/browseimages.php?c=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^gallery/[a-zA-Z_-]+-show-([0-9]+)\.html /gallery/showimage.php?i=$1 [L]

[Guest]

you know that you have to change all links in your php script which generates the html output?

Yeah, I'm going to have to do some moderations to the script so that it shows the mod_rewrite URLs at least on the main page.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^gallery/[a-zA-Z_-]+-browse-([0-9]+)\.html /gallery/browseimages.php?c=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^gallery/[a-zA-Z_-]+-show-([0-9]+)\.html /gallery/showimage.php?i=$1 [L]

[/quote]

Thanks for this! I'll give it a try later today!

Would this also work for the third URL I posted?

mywebsite.com/gallery/search.php?do=searchresults&string=SEARCHTERM&catid=0&quicksearch=1

Thanks again for the help!

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Rodney

[Caterham]

no, it'll only work for your desired format

Even better would be the category name (/gallery/catname-category.html)

which I modified to /gallery/catname-category-browse-2.html for /gallery/browseimages.php?c=$1

/gallery/catname-category-show-2.html for /gallery/showimage.php?i=$1

The catname-categorycan be anything from the chars a-z, A-Z, the _ and -