Use .htaccess to change the url PHP sees

Question

I want to use htaccess to not only choose the script that processes the request, but also to change the request uri as php sees it. Can this be done?

For example:

RewriteRule /funstuff/ funstuff.php

...How can I change that RewriteRule or otherwise change my .htaccess file to get funstuff.php to think that the original request url was actually http://www.example.com/funstuff.php and not http://www.example.com/funstuff/?

Answer 1

The best I can see is

$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] or $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]

(Both should be fine) in conjunction with

$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]

to get the full request. There seems to be no ready-made REQUEST_URI for this.