php - mod rewrite and query strings

Question

I'm trying to rewrite some query strings I have in my URL like this :

foo.com/index.php?page=admin&view=news&action=edit&id=3

to

foo.com/admin/news/edit/3

But can't figure it out...

it should also works if I only have the 'page' parameters for example, since I don't always have these 4 parameters (page,view,action,id) in my urls, of course.

any suggestions?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to do most of the parsing in PHP code.

Use rewriterules like

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

And then access the request uri ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) from PHP, and parse it into as many parts as you want.