Newbie Question on Mod ReWrite

[freerap]

I have trawled the net trying to figure this out. My new site has 3 basic pages using the following links. (Please bear in mind I new no PHP a week ago)

http://www.mysite.com/browse_products.p ... nufacturer

http://www.mysite.com/browse_catagory.p ... ame=basque.

http://www.mysite.com/product_detail.ph ... rgentovivo


Please can someone tell me how to improve this with mod rewrite? I assume the best way would be to have the actuall product name in the this is the name.html format but I have no idea how to do this.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[seomike]

http://www.mysite.com/browse_products.p ... nufacturer

http://www.mysite.com/browse_catagory.p ... ame=basque.

http://www.mysite.com/product_detail.ph ... rgentovivo

First thing you need to do is change the coding in your
browse_products.php
browse_category.php
product_detail.php

Right now the links are out putting those urls up above. you need to change them so they out put as if they were .html instead of the query string.

You said that a .html format would be best. So if you take the strings above in order, you should change them to out put this:

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http://www.mysite.com/manufacturer.html

http://www.mysite.com/bras-asque.html

http://www.mysite.com/195721722-Argentovivo.html


you would put this in the .htaccess to get the mod rewrite to process those pages.

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[a-zA-Z]+[^-]\.html$
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)\.html$ ^/browse_products.php?product_manufacturer=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[a-zA-Z]+-[a-zA-Z]+\.html$
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)-([a-zA-Z]+)\.html$ ^/browse_catagory.php?products_catagory=$1&products_name=$2  [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[0-9]+-[a-zA-Z]+\.html$
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+)\.html ^/product_detail.php?product_id=$1&product_manufacturer=$2 [L]

hope this helps

[Guest]

Many thanks for trying to help but I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work

I have pasted the code into my htaccess and it makes no difference at all.

Any ideas ??

[seomike]

have you changed the code in your php files to out put
this
http://www.mysite.com/manufacturer.html
instead of this:
http://www.mysite.com/browse_products.p ... nufacturer

[Guest]

How do I do that? I'm afraid I'm very new to php, like i knew none 2 weeks ago

[seomike]

you open the php file.

find anywhere it says <a href=......</a>

and modify it.

If you want you can put the <a href info in here and I'll modify it for you. That way you can see how it's done and then you can do it throughout the site.

[Guest]

Thanks Mike. I understand how to modify the links, just not what to change them to? Here is one of my static links.........

<a href="browse_catagory.php?products_catagory=bras&products_name=basque" class="menu">Basque</a>

These are dynamic links.....

<a href="browse_products.php?product_manufacturer=<?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?>" class="menu"><?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?></a>

Many thanks for your help. I'm sure I shall get there in the end.

[seomike]

Change this
<a href="browse_products.php?product_manufacturer=<?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?>" class="menu"><?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?></a>

to this

<a href="<?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?>.html" class="menu"><?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?></a>

it will out put this yourdomain.com/manufacturer.html

back up the php file just incase you need to reference it again before you make these changes.


this is only 1 out of the 3 keep'em coming. I'll help you change the rest!

[Guest]

OK Mike, I have tried that on my test server and it does as you say output the link as html, however it doesn't work and I get a 404 error.

Does the .htaccess as mentioned above need to be in place to? I'm also confused how the link you have posted calls the browse_products.php file ?? It doesn't appear to tell it what page to go to?

Could this be due to the test setup as I'm using foxserve on a win2k box?

I haven't had time to try it on a really live server yet but I'll give that a go tommorow.

Thansk for you help.

[Guest]

O just tried this instead


<a href="browse_products.php?product_manufacturer=<?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?>.html" class="menu"><?php echo $row_rs_manufacturer['product_manufacturer']; ?></a>

and that at least goes to the correct page, but the recieving page doesn't get the variable it is expecting and doesn't proccess the data?