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    copied!<p>What's the best way to implement a URL interpreter / dispatcher, such as found in <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/?from=olddocs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Django</a> and RoR, in PHP?</p> <p>It should be able to interpret a query string as follows:</p> <ul> <li><code>/users/show/4</code> maps to <ul> <li><em>area</em> = <strong>Users</strong></li> <li><em>action</em> = <strong>show</strong></li> <li><em>Id</em> = <strong>4</strong></li> </ul></li> <li><code>/contents/list/20/10</code> maps to <ul> <li><em>area</em> = <strong>Contents</strong></li> <li><em>action</em> = <strong>list</strong></li> <li><em>Start</em> = <strong>20</strong></li> <li><em>Count</em> = <strong>10</strong></li> </ul></li> <li><code>/toggle/projects/10/active</code> maps to <ul> <li><em>action</em> = <strong>toggle</strong></li> <li>area = <strong>Projects</strong></li> <li><em>id</em> = <strong>10</strong></li> <li><em>field</em> = <strong>active</strong></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>Where the query string can be a specified GET / POST variable, or a string passed to the interpreter.</p> <p>Edit: I'd prefer an implementation that does not use mod_rewrite.</p> <p>Edit: This question is not about clean urls, but about interpreting a URL. Drupal uses mod_rewrite to redirect requests such as <a href="http://host/node/5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://host/node/5</a> to <a href="http://host/?q=node/5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://host/?q=node/5</a>. It then interprets the value of $_REQUEST['q']. I'm interested in the interpreting part.</p>
 

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