On Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Daniel Brown wrote: >> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^theme([0-9]+).php$ >> /index.php?theme=$1 [L] > That's neither nginx nor PHP, so it's not really relevant to the > OP's questions. I guess that the answer should be that you can rewrite outside of PHP and then make use of the rewrites within your PHP application. However, you can't AFAICT rewrite within PHP itself. FWIW, I'm using mod-rewrite in one of my applications. In my .htaccess file, I have: ------------8<----------------------- RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/$ master.php?url=index.html [L] RewriteRule ^(.+\.html)$ master.php?url=$1 [QSA,L] ------------8<----------------------- So that all .html files get rewritten to master.php with the originally requested file on the querystring. In master.php, I then have something like: $content = str_replace(".html", "", $_GET['url']) . ".php"; require ('header.php'); if (file_exists($content)){ include ($content); } require ('footer.php'); This lets me have all the common content in required files with the content that is unique to each page defined separately and without needing to embed the top-level page structure in each page. It also gives me 'search-engine-friendly' URIs. HTH, -- Geoff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php