Capture URLs after slash

Question

http://domain.com?keyword=value

...is easy to capture as its a simple GET request, however, I'd like to capture values that I pass directly after the / like so:

http://domain.com/value

And I can fetch those values like so:

preg_match("/[^\/]+$/", "http://www.domain.com/value", $matches);
$last_word = $matches[0]; // value

... however, the URL results in a 404 because its looking for a directory named value which is obviously non-existing.

It is not clear for me what exactly you try to achieve, because php here works as you want. Probably url rewriting? — alphawow, Nov 24 '14 at 07:47
You can redirect any URL to a certain file, e.g. router.php and then you can read the URL with $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8595964/redirect-all-traffic-to-index-php-using-mod-rewrite — androidavid, Nov 24 '14 at 07:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '14 at 07:49

A simple URL rewrite will do it. And you can remove that ugly regex.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

Explanation:

RewriteEngine on - sets the rewrite engine on
RewriteBase / - / means the root of your project/website and is everything after the domain in this case
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f - is not an actual file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d - is not an actual directory
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA,NC] - send everything after the domain to url key GET global variable

Now you can get the url with $_GET['url']. Of course, you can change the key to that GET.

If `domain.com/somevalue` is a folder, it will display that folder (if is not blocked from apache level). However, the 404 page can be made from your php code. — machineaddict, Nov 24 '14 at 07:53

Capture URLs after slash

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