Rewrite query string "?x=y" style to "/x/y" style

Question

I have a PHP MVC framework I've built from scratch which uses the traditional domain.com/controller/action URL routing. While I'm currently handling the below conversion in the router I'd like to replace them in the URL for cosmetic reasons.

For example:

controller/action?filter=bank

Becomes:

controller/action/filter/bank

I've done a bit of experimentation with a regex but can't seem to find a match. I'm also not sure how to rewrite it using RewriteCond.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You should take a look at some of the questions on clean-urls, mod-rewrite and .htaccess.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2088804/htaccess-confusing-clean-urls/2088854

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2569725/getting-two-variables-in-the-url-with-htaccess/2569734

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2549408/needs-some-help-with-an-apache-mod-rewrite-issue/2549688

Answer 2

The Zend Framework URL format is nearly identical to this, and here's what they use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [NC,L]

If your server-side script is PHP, you could use this to grab the url parts:

$request_parts = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$controller = $request_parts[0];
$action = $request_parts[1];
// etc...