Redirect with a variable

Question

I re-did my portfolio site recently, and I'm trying to make it so that when someone clicks a link to my and old project (ie /philosophy.php) that it takes the name of that file (philosophy) and then adds it to an id indicator # and loads to my new page with that ID selected so it automatically scrolls to that project.

Click link > http://www.studioimbrue.com/philosophy.php Redirect > http://www.studioimbrue.com/#philosophy

I am using this right now: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=http://www.studioimbrue.com/"&gt; and I added #<!--#echo var="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" --> but it just comes up as (none).

Answer 1

Add a .htaccess file to your server root

and include this in it:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /#$1 [R=301,NE]

Otherwise use this:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; URL=http://www.studioimbrue.com/#&lt;?php echo basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'.php');?>">

Answer 2

If you want you can achieve the same thing with PHP

$newName  = 'http://www.studioimbrue.com/#' . substr($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], 1, -3);
header('Location: $newName');
die();

But I think doing this with .htaccess is the better way.

Answer 3

You might want to add some rewrite condition not allowing the redirection when there actually is a file with that name, as well as specifying the rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.php$ /#$1 [R=301,NC,NE]