Rewrite Unlimited Query

[Shaydez]

Is there a way to have a mod rewrite to make friendly query strings

something.php?city=brooklyn&state=ny&zip=11214&keyword=hi&keyword=another

something/brooklyn/ny/11214/hi/another full example
something/brooklyn/ny/11214/hi/ just 1 keyword
something/brooklyn/ny/ just city and state

with my limited knowledge i would have to do something like
RewriteRule ^something-([^-][a-zA-z0-9_])$ /search.php?city=$1&state=$2&zip=$3 etc… [L]

[dklynn]

Shay,

Sure! I believe I got into this in my tutorial and discuss the limits to the simple method and how to extend to the allowed length of the URI (255 characters).

Regards,

DK

[Shaydez]

LoL!! i’m always afraid to post a rewrite question cuz i know you will reply with ‘check out my tutorial’

but good stuff… i found it in your tutorial… i’ll give it a try and if have question i post it.

enjoy your weekend.

[Shaydez]

i tried the following script but have no clue what i means…

if i added it… I’m assuming search/city/state/zip will be added into query string?

what’s the difference between using your example as opposed to doing something like RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-z0-9_]+)$ search.php?zg=$1
and getting the query string from zg=brooklyn-ny-keyword-keyword. in this case i would have to split my query string.

RewriteRule ^search/([a-z]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)(/(.))$ $4/?$1=$2 [QSA,N,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =
RewriteRule ^$ search.php [L]

[dklynn]

Shay,

@Shaydez

LoL!! i’m always afraid to post a rewrite question cuz i know you will reply with ‘check out my tutorial’

OMG! I’m not allowed to try to protect myself from typing the same info/code repetitively? Yeah, it didn’t work, did it?

but good stuff… i found it in your tutorial… i’ll give it a try and if have question i post it.

enjoy your weekend.

Until I get another question …

@Shaydez

i tried the following script but have no clue what i means…

if i added it… I’m assuming search/city/state/zip will be added into query string?

what’s the difference between using your example as opposed to doing something like RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-z0-9_]+)$ search.php?zg=$1
and getting the query string from zg=brooklyn-ny-keyword-keyword. in this case i would have to split my query string.

The difference is whether you use mod_rewrite to split the key/value pairs or your script (the script has tools to make that easier … but your -'s can be easily misinterpreted).

# Please use the 

…

 wrapper
RewriteRule ^search/([a-z]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)(/(.*))*$ $4/?$1=$2 [QSA,N,L]
# Where do you get the name of the key from "something/brooklyn/ny/11214/hi/another full example" ?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} = # No regex? This only requires "=" in the query string
RewriteRule ^$ search.php [L]
# and ^$ says that the URI is blank (the URL is just the domain).

It’s fortunate that my “developing regex” example is using a very similar URI development and the regex coding. Please take a look there as it covers the ORDER sequence of country/state/city (and your subsequent digits and verbiage can be assigned as required.

Regards,

DK

[Shaydez]

To answer my own question

a Router is needed for unlimited params

Or could us a based MVC (Controller/Method/Param/Param/Param/Param)
Regex to handle that is

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]