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1. Apex33
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a database table containing a set of music bands. Right now I have a page template 'viewband' set up that takes a query string variable 'id' and uses it to pull all the info about that band for diaplsy. The URL looks like this:

   http://www.mysite.com/viewband/?id=34

   I want to create rewrite rules so that the URL can look like this:

   http://www.mysite.com/viewband/the-band-name/

   I was thinking it could be done using $wp_rewrite. When a new band is added to the database, I could add a new rewrite rule for that band.
   Here is my current code that runs when a new band is added to the table:
   

   function addRewriteRule($slug, $id) {
   	$rewriteSlug = $slug;
   	$rewriteID = $id;
   	add_filter('page_rewrite_rules','rewriteBandPages');
   	flushRules();
   }
   
   function rewriteBandPages($rules) {
   	global $rewriteSlug;
   	global $rewriteID;
   	$newrules = array();
   	$newrules['/viewband/('.$rewriteSlug.')$'] = 'id='.$rewriteID;
   	return $newrules + $rules;
   
   }
   
   function flushRules() {
   	global $wp_rewrite;
   	$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
   }

   This isn't doing anything, however. I get a 404 error when using the URL I wanted to create with these functions.

   Can anyone help me?

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