How to change URL from this ?name=title to ../title

Question

I have a script, which automatically add a URL for every row I insert into database with php.

This is, how it works:

if (isset($_GET['name']) )
  $title = $_GET['name'];

 <Code to select and echo data from database here>

So, if I insert a row named "UserA", then a URL will be created like this:

example.com/users/?name=UserA

I want to remove "?name="and make the URL like: example.com/users/UserA

possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php — Janen R, Jun 08 '17 at 07:35
Possible duplicate of [URL rewriting with PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php) — Janen R, Jun 08 '17 at 07:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '17 at 07:23

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Try adding this to your .htaccess

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule /users/(.*)$ /users/name=$1

If you manage the server yourself, be sure to enable mod_rewrite.

answered Jun 08 '17 at 07:23

Matthijs Otterloo

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Is this is what you mean? http://prntscr.com/fhaazz Yes mod_rewrite is enabled. But it is not working – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 07:36
If your URL is like https://example.com/users/?name=example then you should remove the /website part in the `RewriteRule` if it starts with /website then you should add that to the second part as well. – Matthijs Otterloo Jun 08 '17 at 07:37
I am using it inside xampp, so /website is necessary. The URL is more like localhost/website/users – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 07:44
Yeah use `RewriteRule /website/users/(.*)$ /website/users/name=$1` – Matthijs Otterloo Jun 08 '17 at 07:45
http://prntscr.com/fhafsg Not working bro.Wait, let me confirm once again, if mod_rewrite is enabled – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 07:49
https://www.leonardaustin.com/blog/technical/enable-mod_rewrite-in-xampp/ – Matthijs Otterloo Jun 08 '17 at 07:50
This should work. I think it's a problem with XAMPP. What happens if you go to the url /website/users/UserA will it give an error? – Matthijs Otterloo Jun 08 '17 at 07:54
Error 404 page bro – Ravina Sharma Jun 08 '17 at 07:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '17 at 07:49

If you are familiar with . htaccess then it's good, else create a file in your project folder called .htaccess where htaccess is it's extension not a name:

Then put this into the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule    ^users/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$    users.php?name=$1    [NC,L]    # Handle product requests

This will enable a url rewrite rule and redirect request from users/name to users.php file where you can manage all the request.

Now by going through the url as users/name you will be able to show data from database about that user within the file users.php:

Note: .htaccess file is an APACHE server configuration file.

How to change URL from this ?name=title to ../title

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