Question: I'm changing my site to show friendly URLs like this:

```
www.example.com/folder/topic

```

Works fine!

But when I add a parameter to the URL:

```
www.example.com/folder/topic?page=2

```

`$_GET` stops working. It doesn't recognise the parameter at all. Am I missing something? The parameter worked fine before using full URLs.

Answer: 
If you are using mod\_rewrite then it is your rules that are broken. Either the query string is not being passed, or the mod\_rewrite is discarding everything past **/topic**.

Try adding a rule that you can do: **www.example.com/folder/topic/2**
If you want to make your PHP URLs "friendly" you need to use something like Apache's mod\_rewrite. Google something like "apache mod\_write friendly url" and you will get plenty of articles on the subject.