how to create several url aliases for a page

Question

on the root page of a WordPress site we have a custom page template, that also handles some forms and dynamically changes part of the content.

Something like this:

<form action="" method="post">
...
<input type="hidden" name="action" id="action" value="do_this" />
</form>

and then in the page template we check for $_POST['action']=="do_this". Works perfectly.

Now we would like that when these forms are posted to have the url change (action="/do_this").

For that to work, we need /do_this to deliver the root page, but the url to not change.

we have tried this in .htaccess

RewriteRule ^do_this(.*)$ index.php?p=12 [L]

but it changes the browser url.

It must have something with WordPress, since if we use another file

RewriteRule ^do_this(.*)$ test.html [L]

it works: the url is not changed and the test.html is being delivered.

Thanks.

so you mean to not refresh page but send the form data ? why don't you use ajax to handle it. — Amit Kosti, Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 10:48
@amit: the page will refresh, the data it will be normally posted, but the new url should be mapped only internally to the same page — memical, Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 13:33
do you want to keep the url /do-this/ but with the content of index.php ? — Amit Kosti, Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 13:45
yes :) true. basically to have the do-this url deliver the content of the root page, but i keep getting 404 errors from WP or apache does a redirect. this all works for another file, not index.php. — memical, Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 14:36

memical · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-04 15:23:21Z

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a colleague fixed it using parse_request.

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answered Aug 4, 2012 at 15:23

memical

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