[Webdev] mod_rewrite revisted - the solution

[AJ McKee]

Well finally after sneaking around for a bit I figured it out. Its a bit 
flakey but I think I have the hang of it.

Ok what I have apache doing is the following
<Files test>
	ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

Test is a file and in it I put my code to generate each section and article
--- SNIP-----
// Call the global; config file
require "../config/config.inc.php";
$var_array = explode("/", $PATH_INFO);
$file=$var_array[0];
$section=$var_array[1];
$articleid=$var_array[2];
if($section && $articleid)
    {
    // Ok a section has been selected. List all the articles for this section.
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * from articles where 
articleid='$articleid'") or die ("could not execute");
    $ans = mysql_fetch_array($query);
    // Assign the content and titles to vars
    $section = $ans["section"];
    $title = stripslashes($ans["title"]);
    $intro = stripslashes($ans["intro"]);
    $content = stripslashes($ans["content"]);
    $image = $ans["image"];
---- End Snip

And its working well at the moment. The only problem being that the url is 
now /features/test/section/article.html

But this could be overcome quite easily as /features/ could now be the php 
file called test.  The cool thing is that it accepts arguments that are 
urlencoded because they have a space.

Cool and no mod_rewrite.

Got a lot of help from Adam Beecher guys, and also 
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/485

Thanks all
Aj

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