How to Implement URL Routing with PHP + IIS?

Question

I wrote a content switcher script that uses dynamic URLs to pass parameters indicating what data is to be sent.

For example to view the about page you would type: http://www.example.com/?page=about

The issue is that this is not user friendly especially in my case where users will not necessarily be accessing this page via a link from the home page.

What I would rather have the URL look like is: http://www.example.com/about/

Unfortunately I am running PHP5 on an IIS platform, not Apache, so this eliminates the most common methods that use mod-rewrite.

I'm looking for examples of how to do URL Routing with PHP + IIS.

Can it be done on the IIS 7.5 platform?

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with the URL rewriting methods under ISS but what about:

http://www.example.com/index.php/about/

Seems friendly enough to me and you don't need anything besides pure PHP.

Answer 2

Take a look at ISAPI Rewrite.

Answer 3

Since you're using IIS 7, you can use the new rewriting support that's now available.

Take a look at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-url-rewrite-module/

Answer 4

IIRF is a rewriting filter that works with IIS (5,6,7, 7.5) and uses configuration syntax that is the same as mod_rewrite.

Since you are using IIS7.5, you can also take advantage of the Rewriting Module from Microsoft.

Both of these work fine with PHP.