Another simple url rewrite

I want to turn articles/4.html into news.php?id=4

Any ideas?

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any ideas how to do this?

<?PHP
switch($id)
{
default:
echo "this is the default page";
case '4:
echo "put '4' content here";
break;
break;
}
?>

What? That is NOT an htaccess rewrite. If you missed the first post, i will repeat it.

I want a user to be able to put articles/4.html in their browser and it to be parsed by the server as news.php?id=4

I don't need to know how to display different material according to the id #. Using htaccess rewrite methods only, how do I do this?

does anyone know how to do this?

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you cant do that with .htacces try this though
<?php
$action = $_GET['page'];

function yourfilename() {
include("yourfilename");
}
if ($page == "yourfilename") {
yourfilename();
}
?>

then you can make a link like index.php?page=yourfile
and it will display you file on the page

So why wouldn't something like this work?

RewriteRule ^articles/(.*).html$ news.php?id=$1 [L]

That should work but there is a syntax error in there somewhere and I don't know what is wrong.


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Actually, this does work. View: http://image-space.net/articles/4.html and http://image-space.net/profile/news.php?id=4

if you knew how to do it y post a thread onit?

you cant do that with .htacces try this though

yes, you can.

k my bad :)

i just came up with that. I didn't know it at the begining of this thread

the . probably needs to be escaped...

which dot?

in the time it took to reply, you could have tried both...

well seeing as how it works without escaping, i don't see what the difference would be for escaping one of them.

Because if you don't escape the last dot to make it literal, it could match something other than a dot.

And if you're only matching numbers, you should use [0-9]+ instead of .*:
RewriteRule ^articles/([0-9]+)\.html$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]