Using mod_rewrite for a RESTful api
- by razass
Say the user is making a request to the following url:
"http://api.example.com/houses/123/abc"
That request needs to map to "/webroot/controls/houses.php" and send "123" and "abc" to houses.php as variables without modifying the http headers or body.
"houses" could theoretically be anything; cars, boats; and map to the corresponding php file... cars.php, boats.php respectively with a fallback to index.php if there is no match.
There can be any number of variables after "houses" ie) "http://api.example.com/houses/1234/abc/zxy/987"
I think I already have ALL requests being sent to webroot using:
<IfModule mod_reqrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
But now I am at a loss as to how to take the next step as mentioned above.
Any help is appreciated, even if you feel that I am taking the wrong approach.
Thanks in advance!
