Designing an url for a specific page while using php to load different content

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When designing a website what would be good practice for the url designing and related backend. Say I have a website with news posts on it. I would like the url to look like this:

mysite.com/news/newsItem1

Normally an url like this would reference to a folder called newsItem1 on the server. But in this case there will be a lot of newsItems (stored as xml files), and I don't think it's a good idea to create a folder for every item.

The same thing happens when I make the url like this:

mysite.com/news/newsItem1.html

In that case I would have to make a html file for every newsItem.

What I would like is an url that is different for every newsItem, but on the server it basically points to a php file that parses the matching xml file and returns its contents. How would I do that?

guri · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12 13:08:37Z

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For this you have to use .htacces which allows you to redesign the url.
you can use something like this for that you want :

http://www.mysite.com/news/newsItem.php?id=1

and write the rewrite rule for url design in .htaccess file as:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^id/([^/]*)\.html$ /news/newsitem.php?id=$1 [L]

and the result will be as:

http://www.mysite.com/id/1.html

Here is the link for .htaccess tutorial http://www.htaccess-guide.com/

answered Dec 12, 2012 at 13:08

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Ewoud Over a year ago

It looks like this is exactly what I was looking for, I will try it and accept your answer if I can get it working.

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