Pretending a file is in subdirectory with .htaccess

Question

I have a web application, and it has a RESTful PHP backend that uses Zend framework (which does its own URL rewriting magic).

The problem is, my backend's entry-page is api.php and the endpoints look like:

api.php/resource1
api.php/resource2/id

All I want to do is remove the .php file extension so my URLs look a little cleaner.

Is there any way of doing this without removing the file extension from the PHP file?

Answer 1

Rewrite rule in .htaccess:

RewriteRule  ^test(/.*)?$ test.php?path=$1

Contents of test.php:

<?php 
 if($_GET['path']){
   echo ($_GET['path']);
 }
?>

Then when I hit /test/foo/bar on my server, the PHP page prints out /foo/bar.

Answer 2

Try this to just remove .php:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /.php/$1 [L]