JavaScript or PHP to Manipulate .htaccess File

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Hello there Wapplers…

Do any of you use a JavaScript or PHP function to create and manage routes in your .htaccess file?

Is that possible?

I want to automatically generate simple routes to more complex urls that have query parameters…

Thanks!
Antony.

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You can create routes with multiple, dynamic parameters:

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I would be surprised if dynamically modifying the .htaccess file would be the best approach (in any situation).

Tom

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Thanks @TomD!

I’m no expert in .htaccess files and routing, so I’m curious as to why you consider dynamically adding to the file is a bad idea?

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Usually you define your routes and then just assign different slug and id to them to make different “pages”. Example, you have a hotel booking site and the hotel details page looks like:

https://mysite.com/hotel.php?id=123&name=great+hotel

then you make routing to it which looks like:

/hotel/:id/:name/

and then your users can create different “pages” using routing and you can allow them entering different names slugified like:

https://mysite.com/hotel/1/great-hotel
https://mysite.com/hotel/2/hotel-name-here
https://mysite.com/hotel/99/some-name

so the “dynamic” part here is the slug and the id. The routing path is all the same.

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It’s not exactly that it’s a bad idea - but it’s not necessary (at least, I’ve never found it necessary).

Hopefully, @Teodor’s answer has clarified this anyway.

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Thanks for that @Teodor!

So my question is how to let my users do what you suggest for the booking forms that they create with my app when they don’t have access to Wappler!

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Hi Antony

Your users will just be storing data in your database. Your routing uses that data to create the URL paths.

So if you had a field in your database for username, and your users edit that field, your routing could be set like this:

Path: /userdetails/:username
URL: /userdetails.php

So they would then go to /userdetails/sitestreet (for example) and see that page with all the data pulled in via the GET variable username.

Like this:

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Okay, it starts to make sense now… thank you everyone, I will have a play!

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@Antony When I was handcoding, I built a CMS that would allow creation of pages so it was necessary for me to dynamically update the .htaccess file. I found this in some very old code of mine. May be useful to you if you modify it for your needs for use in Wappler.

#################################
### CHECK FOR .HTACCESS FILE
#################################
$htaccess = './.htaccess';
if (!file_exists($htaccess)) {//if file doesn't exist or install path changed
$fh = fopen($htaccess, 'w') or die("can't open htaccess file");
$stringData = "<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>\r\n
Options +FollowSymlinks\r\n
RewriteEngine On\r\n
RewriteBase ".$_SESSION['path']."\r\n
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\r\n
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\r\n
##home login mypage etc\r\n
##RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?pg_ident=$1 [QSA,L]\r\n
##home.html login.html mypage.html etc\r\n
##pg_ident cannot be page_ident otherwise submit_value() if always the _GET value\r\n
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)".$_SESSION['file_extension']."$ index.php?pg_ident=$1 [QSA,L]\r\n
</IfModule>\r\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
}//if (!file_exists('.htaccess')) {
#################################
### END CHECK FOR .HTACCESS FILE
#################################

-Twitch

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Thank you soooo much @TwitchBlade! :tada:

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