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Posted by Joel David Crouse
Joel David Crouse
9,062 Points

How to write a rewrite rule with a string as the key?

Hello,

I currently have an array of projects and for the key of each project I am using the project name instead of a number like 101. In the rewrite rule tutorials Randy only shows how to do this using numbers. What regular expression could I use to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Eric,

The most generic expression you can use is ([\w-_]+) which will make all characters in both upper and lowercase and allow hyphens and underscores if you need them, if you can let us know an example URL we can give you a more precise expression.

Joel David Crouse
Joel David Crouse
9,062 Points
Joel David Crouse
Joel David Crouse
9,062 Points

Ok cool, thanks Chris, I will give this a try! I am still working from my local server so it would be something like:

http://localhost:8888/mysite/portfolio/project?id=example20%project

What I want is:

http://localhost:8888/mysite/portfolio/example-project/