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1. meeble
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hello,

   I am trying to use mod_rewrite and modify WordPress' URL handling to allow for passing variables to PHP from the URL while maintaining "pretty permalink" functionality. (on WP 3.2.1)

   Something like this:

   http://epiclasers.com/hello-world
   (normal with permalinks set to /%postname%)

   http://epiclasers.com/state/hello-world
   (WP should display the same hello-world post as above, but also would pass the state string to PHP as a variable)

   http://epiclasers.com/state/city/hello-world
   (WP should display the hello-world post, but would pass the state and city strings to PHP as variables)

   I added the following mod_rewrite code to my .htaccess file:
   

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\w+)/ /index.php?st=$1&city=$2 [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(\w+)/ /index.php?st=$1 [L]

   which kind of works. The variables are being passed, and PHP can grab them with:
   

   $state = $_GET['st'];
   $city = $_GET['city'];

   The problem is that WP is getting confused by the URL and isn't finding the post. URL's like these:

   http:/epiclasers.com/state/city/hello-world
   http:/epiclasers.com/state/

   are bringing up a page not found error. Also, when entering this URL:

   http:/epiclasers.com/state/hello-world

   It redirects to: http:/epiclasers.com/hello-world
   which then displays the post fine.

   How do I modify the WP URL handling code to ignore the /state and /city parts of the URL without also breaking URLs like:

   http:/epiclasers.com/category/category1
   http:/epiclasers.com/tag/tag1
   http:/epiclasers.com/category/category2/subcategory

   Thanks,
   Devin

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