Been reading about this for a while now and I'm close but struggling with the final hurdle.
I have a url like this: site.com/detail/123/some-description/maybe-some-more-description
that I want to become
site.com/details.php?id=123
I've got this so far
RewriteRule detail/(.*)/.*$ details.php?id=$1
which according to this (https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/) results in
details.php?id=123/some-text
how do I get rid of the some-text on the end?
Try this:
(.*?detail)\/(\d+)\/.*$1.php?id=$2Which results in site.com/detail.php?id=123.
They both can be tested at Regex101.
(.*?detail) matches the site base URL with details and captures to the group $1.\/ matches the slash itself (must be escaped).(\d+) matches the number and captures it to the group $2.\/.* matches the rest of the URL and it helps to not include it in the replacement.Edit: Do you mind the difference between detail and details?
It seems that in your case you have one more group of /text/
Change your rule from:
RewriteRule detail/(.*)/.*$ details.php?id=$1
to
RewriteRule detail/(.*)/(.*)/.*$ details.php?id=$1
If you don't know how many slashes there are you can just use group with excluded slash [^\/]*:
RewriteRule detail/([^\/]*)/.*$ details.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ file.php?key=$1 [L,QSA]
use in anchor tag
<a href="details/<?php $id?>">
if you want receive value in variable $value = $_REQUEST['key'];
