Search and replace with mod_rewrite

[TeckniX]

I'm trying to put together a mod_rewrite that will do a 'find and replace' on / and change them to %20 (space)

I couldn't find any information on the subject - anyone could help?

basically I'm doing a catch all, so that:
mydomain.com/company/location/moreinfo

gets thrown to:
mydomain.com/index.php?search=company%20location%20moreinfo

there can be an unlimited amount of '/' in the URI so this needs to be rather flexible.

Thanks!

[richardk]

Regular expressions aren't good at find and replace (or at least mine aren't). The easiest way to do it is to use a simple rule in your .htaccess file

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index\.php?search=$1 [QSA,L]

And add this to the top of index.php (after the first <?php or <?) to replace the slashes with spaces

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if(isset($_GET['search']))
{
  // Replace slashes with spaces.
  $_GET['search'] = str_replace('/', ' ', trim($_GET['search'], '/'));
}

[TeckniX]

thanks Richard - I was hopping you'd chime in.

I guess I'll have to go the regular php way then

Thanks!