anyone know how to do a simple url rewrite?
 

All I want to do is change a URL that looks like this

/downloads/?dl_cat=3

to something like

/downloads/name-of-download/

I can't seem to get it to work :disgust

Assuming "name of download" in that example is 3? I think that ought to do it..

heh i think he wants the opposite of that ( se friendly urls )

is this kindergarten?

Ok you need to do this:

Modify your script so that it takes name of the download as a parameter, eg:

/downloads/?dl_name=name_of_download

then, edit your .htaccess file:

This should work.

sorry i screwed up, the htacces should be:

Use what everyone else said & dynamically add "name-of-download" as a part of url, so you'd have something like /downloads/3-name-of-download/. Take first # and forward that to /?dl_cat=3. If you're hell bent on that just having /name-of-download then you can do it in mysql and you'd have /?dl_cat=name-of-download and then you'd get id from the database. The first way is easier.