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copied!<p>Okay, so I know this question title is a little vague and it has to have been answered before, but Ive spent hours looking at various solutions and none of them quite answer what im looking for.</p> <p>Ok, so im making a site with a navigation structure resembling this -</p> <h3>Navigation Structure</h3> <pre><code>Home Products Overview Feature sub-page Feature sub-page Feature sub-page Videos Demonstrations Training ... </code></pre> <p>So my idea so far is to have for a file structure:</p> <h3>File Structure</h3> <pre><code>resources/ config.php public_html/ index.php menu.php head.php footer.php css/ images/ js/ pages/ home/ index.php home.php products/ index.php sub-page.php sub-page.php videos.php demonstrations.php training/ index.php ... </code></pre> <p>So Im using a config.php with path variables to maintain links. And for each 'category' im using </p> <pre><code>pages/CATEGORY/index.php?page=XXX </code></pre> <p>What im really looking for is a way to structure my files or setup .htaccess so that it provides clean urls to look something like:</p> <pre><code>products home page - mysite/products/ products video page - mysite/videos OR mysite/products/videos products sub-pages - mysite/products/sub-page </code></pre> <p>With the ability to mask my actual file structure and when pages like products/index.php has $_GET variables, to tanform the url into:</p> <pre><code>mysites/products/sub-page </code></pre> <p>Ive looked at mod_rewrite of course, and was thinking something like </p> <pre><code>RewriteRule products/sub-page products/index.php?page=sub-page-name </code></pre> <p>might work but wouldnt answer masking folder structure (ie. 'pages'). This would require at least one rule for each 'category' with regex</p> <p>Just to clarify: all pages/categories/index.php contain all of the to level .php parts (head, menu, footer, ect) and the top level index.php just contains an include for pages/home/index.php</p> <p>Note: I also need to support 404 pages into the sub-pages, so that if I do use </p> <pre><code>index.php?page=sub-page-name </code></pre> <p>And the sub-page doesnt actually exist, that it shows a valid message, or even just reverts to the default index.php content (conditional check on variables against existing files or 'approved values' list)</p> <p>-EDIT-</p> <p>So the solution im looking at now is:</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/$ http://.../public_html/pages/products/index.php RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/videos$ http://.../public_html/pages/products/index.php?page=videos RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/demonstrations$ http://.../public_html/pages/products/index.php?page=demonstrations </code></pre> <p>But this only solves part of the problem (and is a bit too specific for my liking but i can bear with that if absolutely need be)</p> <p>How about when im doing sub-pages, the number is fiarly large and potentially subject to change. Instead of doing 1 rule for each subpage could I use </p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/info/(.*)$ http://.../public_html/pages/products/index.php?product=XXX </code></pre> <p>And even if I let the user pass in the variable '?product' themselves, would I write</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/?product(.*)$ http://.../public_html/pages/products/index.php?product=$1 </code></pre> <p>or similar?</p> <p>Also, I need this to work both ways, so that if they use the full url (ie. with <code>?page</code>) it changes to the masked url</p> <p>-EDIT-</p> <p>So im now using the CodeIgniter php framework, its a very light mvc framework which doesnt enforce too many strict rules upon you, it also allows me to place this in my routes.php:</p> <pre><code>$route['products/info/(:any)'] = "products/view_info/$1"; $route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "$1/view/$2"; $route['(:any)'] = "$1/view"; </code></pre> <p>which, when combined with this in my .htaccess:</p> <pre><code>RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L] </code></pre> <p>solves my issues.</p> <p>Im not using it too strickly right now, still have a mess of javascript controlling my youtubeapi requests within my videos.php page, but i may convert this to a model.php and jquery ajax hybred, if i can get my model.php to easily intrigrate without causing me to rewrite all of my api-handling code to php</p>

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