clean url using php

Question

ive seen things like

<?php
 if(is_array($_GET)) { 
    $page = isset($_GET['p'])?strtolower(urlencode($_GET['p'])):'index.php'; 
    $page = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9]/','',$page); 
//  echo '['.$page.']'; 
} 
else $page = ''; 
if(!file_exists($page.'.php')) require("index.php"); 
else require(_path_.$page.'.php');

} ?>

But i dont really get how this works entirely.

Basically I want to do something with php and htaccess i believe i will know, example; domain.com/page/about would go to domain.com/pages/about.php and output the contents? i know ive seen this somewhere but i forget what its called! I've been searching forever now!

Im not the best at code and need a bit help to do, please.

the above script is quite easy to understand. What is the problem with it? — briosheje, Jun 24 '14 at 07:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

I think what you're looking for is mod_rewrite. See Apache's documentation for a comprehensive explanation. Tuts+ also has a nice tutorial.

You essentially want to get the the page as a token and pass that to this script as a GET parameter, which your script will evaluate.

If you don't need the full functionality of mod_rewrite and you're just looking to drop the PHP extension, then this question is more relevant: .htaccess; no extension required

clean url using php

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