How to change my id and name in php url

Question

How would I change the URL from

from: example.com/games.php?id=27

to: website.com/games/271/game-name-here

So far I have this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^games/([0-9]+)/?$ games.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*).aspx$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^(.*).ashx$ $1.php
Options -Indexes
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Options -Multiviews

Solution

As I understand, you want requests for the following URL website.com/games/271/game-name-here to be handled by games.php

For this, you may use a simpler rule.

RewriteRule ^games/(.*)$ /games.php?var=$1 [L]

This will send all requests with /games/ to games.php. For e.g.

/games/271/game-name-here will go like this /games.php?var=271/game-name-here

Now, game-name-here is only for SEO purpose as what you actually need is only the id. So, filter the id part from the var like this -

$value=($_GET['var']);
$temp = explode('/',$value);
$id = $temp[0];

Remember, htaccess is used only for handling the URL requests. You still need to form the correct URLs in your webpages.

Additional Tip: You may also consider the following URL structure website.com/games/271-game-name-here . Here just explode the URL on a hyphen '-' instead of '/'

Comments

[MrWhite]

I wrote an answer about implementing "friendly URLs" on StackOverflow recently: stackoverflow.com/questions/32115217/…

[MrWhite]

This answer is inconsistent. In the first code snippet PATH_INFO is used (ie. abc.php/path/info) to create a more friendly looking URL (which is different to what the OP requires). If PATH_INFO is used then you don't necessarily need to do any rewriting in .htaccess, but your second code snippet implies that you are.