Help dealing with .htaccess for making my URL pretty.

Question

Hi,

My current URL look like this.

http://example.com/news.php?id=25&cat=news&date=01092010&title=this-is-the-first-title

i want to make it cleaner like

http://example.com/news/01092010/this-is-the-first-title

i just know the basic of how .htaccess works with the basic understanding of its directive, how do i achieve this?

Edit : i dont want the id to be displayed.

thank you

Answer 1

RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-z-]+)$ /news.php?cat=$1&date=$2&title=$3

But note the id is not contained in this "pretty URL"! Therefore, you must manually look this up (or you directly fetch the news item) in news.php based on the values from $_GET['date'] and $_GET['title'].

The rule above will convert a request on the form http://example.com/news/01092010/this-is-the-first-title into http://example.com/news.php?cat=news&date=01092010&title=this-is-the-first-title.