Shrinking url in PHP

Question

I'm trying to show this url http://www.xyz.com/catnew/newcat.php as http://www.xyz.com/cat. Any help is appreciated.

You need to redirect it, either in your .htaccess file or by using the header() function in index.php - or whatever file handles requests — okyanet, Feb 20 '12 at 11:15
With the assumption that you use apache, I would recommend you to look at `mod_rewrite` — Ragnar123, Feb 20 '12 at 11:15
@Jan Hančič - I want the first url to be displayed as second. Nothing else. — Kishor Kumar, Feb 20 '12 at 11:17
@Kishor Kumar do you mean the completely PHP-unrelated way? `http://www.xyz.com/cat` — , Feb 20 '12 at 11:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '12 at 11:15

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look up tutorials on mod_rewrite, if your on Apache this may be the answer depending on how you want to do it.

answered Feb 20 '12 at 11:15

James

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '12 at 11:19

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^cat/([^/]*)$ /catnew/newcat.php?cat=$1 [L]

The original URL:

http://www.xyz.com/catnew/newcat.php?cat=3

The rewritten URL:

http://www.xyz.com/cat/3

answered Feb 20 '12 at 11:19

Sandeep Bansal

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