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10-22-2006, 07:53 PM

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.htaccess been stuck all day please help

hi,
I have been trying to do my .htaccess all day the best I can get is this:
to

Code:

www.ebooklobby.com/details/51/Life%2520in%2520the%2520Red%2520Brigade/?id=51&title=Life%2520in%2520the%2520Red%2520Brigade

I want to get rid of the ?id=51&title=Life%2520in%2520the%2520Red%2520Briga de on the end. On the link to the page I pass the id and title parameters is there a way to remove them from the end of the url. Also I want to get rid of the %2520 characters.

The url I want is

Code:

http://www.ebooklobby.com/ebook-title/

Here is the code of the .htaccess file

Code:

RewriteEngine on 
# 
# Internally rewrite search engine friendly static URL to dynamic filepath and query 
RewriteRule /([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /details.php?id=$1&title=$2 [L] 
# 
# Externally redirect client requests for old dynamic URLs to equivalent new static URLs 
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /details\.php\?id=([^&]+)&title=([^&]+)\ HTTP/ 
RewriteRule ^details\.php$  http://www.ebooklobby.com/details/%1/%2/ [R=301,L]

10-23-2006, 11:17 AM

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Try this:

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^details/([0-9]+)/(.*)/$ details.php?id=$1&title=$2

This will produce:

details/2352/title/

10-23-2006, 08:14 PM

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thanks I got this one to work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ details.php?id=$1&title=$3&catname=$2 [L]

it has loads of %20 in the url, does anyone know how to get rid of them

10-23-2006, 09:08 PM

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If you are using $_GET in your PHP code, then you have to use str_replace() or something similar to change any spaces, (" "), or codes such as ("%20"), into hyphens or underscores.

10-27-2006, 07:52 PM

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http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php