Create a page without placing .php at the end?

Question

I was looking for ways to mimic something I've seen, however I'm really not even sure where to start or how to search for it.

Lets say my page was:

foo.com/ and my index page could take an argument of: index.php?id=5

What I'm wanting to do is create the following:

foo.com/5/ rather than placing index.php?id=5 just use the webstring to pass in the parameters, to hide not only the fact its a PHP page, but to clean up the url a bit more.

Is this possible?

Cheers

Answer 1

You'll want to look into URL rewriting. With the commonly used Apache webserver, this is accomplished with mod_rewrite.

Answer 2

or /?5/123/ and in php parse the query string if rewrite is not available

Answer 3

Something like this should suit:

RewriteRule ^pages/([A-Za-z_-]*)(/?)$ /index.php?page=$1

Broken down, we're looking for a URL that starts with pages, has any combination of letters, underscores and hyphens, and an optional trailing forward slash, and passing that to /index.php to handle.

Answer 4

Yes Mod_rewrite is best option, you can create .htaccess file. if you do not want the write a custom function which will handle the your url.