.htaccess mod_rewrite help

[oracle]

Hello All,

I am currently using something like this in my .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ users/profile.php?q=$1
RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ users/profile.php?q=$1

I actually copied this from somewhere and doesn't really know why they wrote almost the same thing twice. Anyways what I need now is:

I have tabs in the profile.php page which are like, user profile, user messages, user fans etc etc. (user profile is what i show by default) Now I need that when a person clicks on user messages the URL should be something link:

http://mysite.com/users/username/messages and it should internally change to
http://mysite.com/users/profile.php?q=username&p=messages

Similarly when someone clicks back on user profile the url should be like:
http://mysite.com/users/username/profile and it should internally change to
http://mysite.com/users/profile.php?q=username&p=profile

Also normal:
http://mysite.com/users/username should internally change to
http://mysite.com/users/profile.php?q=username&p=messages

Can someone help me here ??

 

[supajason]

if remember right:

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /users/profile.php?q=$1&p=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]*)$ /users/profile.php?q=$1&p=messages [L]

use as:

http://mysite.com/users/{q}/{p}
or
http://mysite.com/users/{q}    (p=messages)

RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ users/profile.php?q=$1
RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ users/profile.php?q=$1

having the "/" in your rewrite means you can have this

http://mysite.com/users/{q}
or
http://mysite.com/users/{q}/

i think thats it!

 

[oracle]

Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge...however now i think if this can be done the following way it will look much better:

http://mysite.com/users/username?p=message
turns to
http://mysite.com/users/profile.php?q=username&p=message

Can you help me for this too, I will be highly obliged if this can be done

 

[supajason]

if remember right:

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /users/profile.php?q=$1&p=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^users/([^/]*)$ /users/profile.php?q=$1&p=messages [L] <------Here

use as:

http://mysite.com/users/{q}/{p}
or
http://mysite.com/users/{q}    (p=messages)  <-----Here

RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ users/profile.php?q=$1
RewriteRule ^users/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ users/profile.php?q=$1

having the "/" in your rewrite means you can have this

http://mysite.com/users/{q}
or
http://mysite.com/users/{q}/

i think thats it!

do you see!

 

[oracle]

Thanks a lot, have it solved now