PHP Pretty URLs

[Bennett 🚀]

I read that thread that was in here.. and wow. -slaps forehead- It was a little much xD How do you even get urls like example.com/?action=something&person=you

?

And then, how would you use it for certain people? Like a member system?

[Charles Stover]

mod_rewrite
Google it.

.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^action\/(\w+)\/(\w+)$ index.php?action=$1&person=$2

example.com/action/something/you

[Bennett 🚀]

Question:
erinuki-images.comlu.com/

How would I get it to display certain sprites and it's type, in the URL?
Like, I have sprites under the directory of diamond.
This directory is within the "sprites" directory.
I want the url to be something like: erinuki-images.comlu.com/index.php?type=diamond&id=000
Thing is, they are .png's, so how would I factor that in? or would I have to include in the id: 000.png?

[Charles Stover]

In your example, index.php would need to include:
if (array_key_exists('type', $_GET) && array_key_exists('id', $_GET) && is_numeric($_GET['id']) && is_dir('./sprites/' . str_replace('.', '', $_GET['diamond'])) && file_exists('./sprites/' . str_replace('.', '', $_GET['diamond']) . '/' . $_GET['id'] . '.png'))
{
header('Content-Type: image/png');
echo file_get_contents('./sprites/' . str_replace('.', '', $_GET['diamond']) . '/' . $_GET['id'] . '.png');
exit();
}

Or in .htaccess
RewriteCond sprites/$1/$2.png -f
RewriteRule ^index.php?type=(\w+)&id=(\d+)$ sprites/$1/$2.png

Although it may need to be %1 and %2 in RewriteCond. IDR.

However, you're doing the opposite of what you should be doing... It's much better for both SEO and server resources [and thus loading speeds] that you link directly to the image.