[Webdev] Mod_rewrite revisted yet again :-)

[AJ McKee]

Hi all again,

Olay well I am most of the way there now with PHP and mod_rewrite however I 
have a problem that is just wreaking my sore hung over head ;-(

Okay well I have never been strong at regex's so here is the problem
Currently on the site on a page in /features/ it will print a list of 
sections. Then when the section is clicked on it displays items that belong 
to that section.
The below rule changes /features/index.php?section=Music%articleid=11 to 
/features/Music/11.html and that is cool.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/features/index.php$
# The RewriteRule
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?section=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([0-9]{1,9}).html$ 
index.php?section=$1&articleid=$2


Now this is where the fun begins.

What if a section has a space or more in its name? So for example "Cooking 
Tips". With php I can urlencode this to /features/Cooking+Tips/
But I would like to get mod_rewrite using the above rules to work this out. 
Also what happens if I have more that one space in the url eg

/features/Cooking+tips+for+home/

Yeah I know I am really s**** at regex ;-)

Thanks in advance
Aj

PS. Thanks to Adam beacher for helping to get this far ;-)