Creating a virtual directory or convert url query string to a directory using .htaccess

Using mod_rewrite or .htaccess will help your site URL a much more Search Engine Friendly URL by converting the URL query string to a directory like this http://mysite.com/index.php?page=gallery&task=view to http://mysite.com/gallery/view/. Simply name the directory by the name of the value of your GET variable on your url. Also you can get the value of the URL by calling the name of the variable on the url that you have represent. So place the code inside your .htaccess file.

# put this .htaccess file to your site root directory #

Options +FollowSymLinks
# start the Rewrite Engine or Rewrite Mode #
RewriteEngine On

# convert the directory type url to url query #
# "$1" is a variable to set the value of "folder" #
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\\s-]+)(/)?$ index.php?folder=$1