URL Artistry

PHP
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Dear friends,

I am working on a rewrite of a Buddhist scholastic website Sutta Central. Much work has gone into developing an HTML5/CSS presentation. I’m actually a Buddhist monk, but in a “past life” I wrote code for a living. I have taught myself PHP using the excellent books “PHP: Novice to Ninja” and “PHP Master” and thus came across this site. So, the actual question:

Say I have a URL like this:

http://suttacentral.net/browse.php?show=division&division=DN

Is it possible somehow to display this page when you follow a link like this:

http://suttacentral.net/Pali/DN

Where Pali is a collection of divisions in the Pali language and DN denotes the “Digha Nikaya” division in this collection.

Thanks in advance!

Bhante Jhanarato
Bodhinyana Monastery

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This is generally achieved using Apaches mod_rewrite.

I trust this marvellous text puts you on the path to enlightenment.

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Dear Cups,

Thanks for the pointer. I suspected this was the way to do it (I think it mentions this technique in PHP Master), but I’m not sure I have privileges on the server to do so. I will investigate and discuss it with the dev team.

Best wishes,

J.R.

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You could create a folder and then put a .htaccess file into that folder. If mod_rewrite is enabled on the server, then that rule should be applied.

This post contains some really simple rules you could copy/paste into your .htaccess file to do this initial check.

Good luck with this.

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Dear Cups,

Thanks so much for your help. mod_rewrite is indeed enabled for our host.

Cheers!

J.R.