How to convert query string to url slug on form submit get method in php?

Question

I'm developing a website in php and this is my first site using php and I'm new to php.

The site contains 2 pages, index.php and info.php

The index.php has the below form,

<form action="info.php" method="get">
    <input type="text" name="username" />
    <input type="text" name="company" />
    <input type="email" name="email" />
    <button type="submit">Click to Proceed!</button>
</form>

When the user enter and submit the details. It redirects to the next page and the url contains the query string like,

http://localhost/info?username=john&company=zend&email=beast@example.com

I want to display the above url like this,

http://localhost/info/john/zend/beast@example.com

and to get the values from url using $_GET['username'],$_GET['company'] and $_GET['email']

I tried the lot of rewrite rule including the below in htaccess,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([\d\w-]+)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([\d\w-]+)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/([0-9]+)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/([0-9]+)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [QSA]

but nothing works.

I tried this and Clean URLs for search query? too.

would somebody help me with this issue.

You can't really change this on the serverside, you have to do it with JavaScript. If you want clean URLs you should use POST instead of GET. — Gerald Schneider, Sep 17 '14 at 12:21
possible duplicate of [Clean URLs for search query?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5464481/clean-urls-for-search-query) — Gerald Schneider, Sep 17 '14 at 12:23
I don't want clean urls. I need these values in the next page via url only. That's why I'm using GET — Gopinath Perumal, Sep 17 '14 at 12:29
@GeraldSchneider You are saying that this can't be done. But many have agreed and ansered that it is working refer the links I have given(recently edited). — Gopinath Perumal, Sep 17 '14 at 12:40
What you want is called **Routing** and it has been already implemented in many frameworks out there. Just pick one and see how it works. Pick laravel 4 for example, See this covers exactly what you want: http://laravel.com/docs/routing#route-parameters — Yang, Sep 17 '14 at 14:34
Could you please refer this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4301481/how-do-i-convert-a-php-query-string-into-a-slash-based-url). Might Give You some idea. — Jansha, Sep 18 '14 at 13:05

MontrealDevOne · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17T16:16:01.167

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The flow is this.

submit your form to route.php

here is the code to route.php

if(isset($_GET['username']) && isset($_GET['company'])  && isset($_GET['email']) )
    $url = '/info/'.$_GET['username'].'/'.$_GET['company'].'/'.$_GET['email']
header('Location: '.$url);

In your .htaccess

RewriteRule  ^info/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)$ info.php?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [L,QSA]

edited Sep 17 '14 at 16:16

answered Sep 17 '14 at 16:04

MontrealDevOne

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Thanks for the answer. It does redirect to /info/myname/mycompany/myemail, but it leads to this, /info/myname/mycompany/myemail.php was not found on this server. – Gopinath Perumal Sep 18 '14 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '14 at 12:18

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Check with a simple rule,if rewrite is working. Make sure rewrite module is enabled.

 RewriteRule  ^info/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)(/*)$ info?username=$1&company=$2&email=$3 [L,QSA]

answered Sep 17 '14 at 12:18

Vicky

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This does the opposite of what is wanted. – Gerald Schneider Sep 17 '14 at 12:20

How to convert query string to url slug on form submit get method in php?

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