Clean URLs with PHP how do you do this?

[fro0ty]

Im learning PHP and I can't figure out how to do this. on my website I have url's that display like this:

http://www.somesite.com/contact.php

but I want it to be displayed like this:

http://www.somesite.com/contact/ or http://www.somesite.com/contact

is there a way to do this and how to you do it? thanks

 

[lpxxfaintxx]

I believe you have to edit the .htaccess or something like that.. Not 100% sure.

 

[e39m5]

I would just make a new folder called contact, then rename contact.php to index.php so it loads when you go to /contact

Unless I'm missing something?

e39m5

 

[lpxxfaintxx]

Well, unless the content is dynamic I guess it would work.. clever!

 

[RickM]

Its done with mod_rewrite,

place this into your htaccess file (edit as needed).

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule contact/$ /contact.php

 

[Peter]

you could always set error handler to a custom script that checks the existance of the file (taking off the last slash and adding .php) if it does not exist do a 404 if it does forward to it.

Although rmwebs code would be better.