PHP - Moved: .htaccess Rewrite Help

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Hi Guys,

I no its only a partial PHP question but its still related to PHP...

I have a URL   .com/sites/0.php?Ter=144      and it takes you to a page and loads details with the id (ter) equalling 144 and displays all of 144's information... normal PHP stuff 

However I want to be able to put a Rewrite rule using a .htaccess (unless there is a better method!?) to get search engine frienly results.

However I dont want the user to type   .com/144 to bring up the Leeds branch. I want them to type .com/leeds and it bring up 144 (Leeds Branch).

BranchName is the field I use for the branch name in my MySQL table.

Is this possible? Also when I enter    .com/sites/0.php?BranchName=Leeds     that doesnt work either...

Cheers, Sam

Hello everyone,How can i change the url  when I am navigating from one page to another.

for example if the existing url is like "www.example.com/product.php?name=xyz&q=service" ,I want to change it to  "www.example.com/product/name/xyz/q/service"

But I dont want to use .htacces. How can I do it using php functions only?

I was trying to refrain from posting, but its driving me mad and I am not sure what to do.   Here is the issue.   I have some rewrite rules and are making them better. But for now just need to know why this rule is giving me a page not found everytime.   Firstly, this rule works fine:     Options +FollowSymLinks

Hi, can anyone tell me what im doing wrong. below is a rewrite rule saved as .htaccess. the page loads and i dont get a 500 error but the url didnt change like it should have in the rewrite rule. The .htaccess is located in the root folder. Any idea what i'm doing wrong guys?
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^products/$ view/inventory.php

</IfModule>