php rewrite?

[LazyJim]

Ok my site is all on one page index.php, and it has ?query string (_GET) variables to navigate,
e.g. ?section=contact
e.g. ?section=about&page=services

This works fine, but now I decided I want directory structures to work as well,
e.g. /contact/
e.g. /about/services/

I can use PHP to re-write the directory names to _GET variables in the ?query string, and I can redirect the browser to the new URL with a header( "refresh: 0; url=$rewritten_url"); statement.
But then the re-written URL shows up in the browser.

I want to use header("location:$rewritten_url");, but for some reason it isn't working!

Here's the script I'm using, can anyone see why?

[code:1:21a609892e]<?php
$sOldPath = trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
/* TODO: get rid of .html .php etc */
$aParts = preg_split("/[\/]+/", $sOldPath, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$sNewPath = "";
switch (count(array_slice($aParts,0,2))) {
case 2: $sNewPath = "&page=" . $aParts[1];
case 1: $sNewPath = "?section=" . $aParts[0] . $sNewPath;
}
$sNewPath = 'Location:http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/index.php' . $sNewPath;
Header($sNewPath);
exit();
?>
[/code:1:21a609892e]

[LazyJim]

Oh yeah, and this script run with .htaccess ErrorDocument 404 directive.

Or does Location: redirect change the visible address too??

[LazyJim]

i suppose I could make index.php my ErrorDocument, but the redirect not working really bugs me!

[LazyJim]

Well I fixec my index.php to convert the directory based nav to the ?query based one it was already using, and changed my 404 ErrorDocument to index.php.

It works: http://www.alpha-matrix-design.co.uk/about/services/

[LazyJim]

And this way it needs a <base href=""> elemtent before any external files are linked in the HTML (images, javascripts, css files, movies etc).

well thanks for ya help LJ!

[Jazzee]

No problem

[LazyJim]

[putu]

use .htaccess mod_rawrite ?

[LazyJim]

Using PHP I can do searches on my site too, rather than just fling them at a page.
Plus I don't have to play with funny reg-ex patterns that not many ppl understand very well.