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PHP

Spencer Christensen
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Spencer Christensen
Courses Plus Student 8,180 Points
Posted by Spencer Christensen
Spencer Christensen
Courses Plus Student 8,180 Points

Extra Credit on "Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules" (PHP)

Hello,

I, being a very diligent student, have been banging away at the extra credit on Randy Hoyt's "Cleaning URLs..." to no avail. To recap, the task is:

To achieve item 1 I have implemented the following in my htaccess file: 

RewriteRule ^contact/thanks/$ /contact/index.php?status=thanks

Item 2 is where I am tripping (at least I think). I have tried an assortment of the following, with no luck whatsoever:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^status=(thanks)$
RewriteRule ^contact/index.php$ /contact/%1/? [R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^status=(thanks)$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /contact/%1/? [R=301]

Any assistance would be very appreciated!!!

4 Answers

Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points
Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points

I feel your pain i really do think that treehouse needs to revamp its php course at the moment at lot of things could be improved on ....

Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
14,626 Points
Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
14,626 Points

Spencer,

I was having the same problem that you were. I was probably over-thinking it. I basically just did what you had done for step one, ignored doing any other rewrites, and then changed the $mail destination in the contact page from "//contact/?status=thanks" to simply "contact/thanks/". It worked like a charm.

John MacDonald
John MacDonald
8,593 Points
John MacDonald
John MacDonald
8,593 Points

Just go in the the Contact index file and edit the header location info to redirect to contact/thanks/.

Hope this helps

John; \n\n

Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
14,626 Points

Thanks, John. I was having the same problem as Spencer, and your solution worked perfectly for me.