I Love Jack Daniels and Added Bytes

Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Greg Allard in Programming | Comments

I love, not only the drink, but the site named after it as well (the site’s name is Added Bytes now, but it’s still awesome). They have provided a very handy cheat sheet that helped me get a simple mod_rewrite thing going for searching for cards on a magic the gathering database I have set up.

I’ve cleaned up the URLs at http://mtg.pyrodius.com so that when you search it has a pretty URL like http://mtg.pyrodius.com/card/aluren .

Check out the mod rewrite sheet at Added Bytes

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I found the line that contains RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ categories.php?name=$1 [L] to be particularly useful, however it doesn't include underscores. The syntax is a little different than php's so I couldn't just add _ to the end of the character class without having apache throw me a 500 internal server error. So a simple alternative is to do: ^(([A-Za-z0-9-]|\_)+)/?$

Anonymous

It threw an error because "-" was the last item in the list (the only place it's valid in a character class without being escaped). Escape it and it should work fine.

Dave Child

Sadly, it is ILoveJackDaniels no more, as JD insisted on a name change. The site's moved to AddedBytes.com.

Greg Allard

That's too bad it had to be changed. At least all of the good info is still there. I updated the post with the new links and new name.

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