.htaccess - URL rewriting with PHP -

i have url looks like:

url.com/picture.php?id=51 

how go converting url to:

picture.php/some-text-goes-here/51 

i think wordpress same.

how go making friendly urls in php?

you can 2 ways:

the .htaccess route mod_rewrite

add file called .htaccess in root folder, , add this:

rewriteengine on rewriterule ^/?some-text-goes-here/([0-9]+)$ /picture.php?id=$1 

this tell apache enable mod_rewrite folder, , if gets asked url matching regular expression rewrites internally want, without end user seeing it. easy, inflexible, if need more power:

the php route

put following in .htaccess instead:

fallbackresource index.php 

this tell run index.php files cannot find in site. in there can example:

$path = ltrim($_server['request_uri'], '/');    // trim leading slash(es) $elements = explode('/', $path);                // split path on slashes if(empty($elements[0])) {                       // no path elements means home     showhomepage(); } else switch(array_shift($elements))             // pop off first item , switch {     case 'some-text-goes-here':         showpicture($elements); // passes rest of parameters internal function         break;     case 'more':         ...     default:         header('http/1.1 404 not found');         show404error(); } 

this how big sites , cms-systems it, because allows far more flexibility in parsing urls, config , database dependent urls etc. sporadic usage hardcoded rewrite rules in .htaccess fine though.