mod rewrite help

[Hmongkeysauce]

i want the url 'x' to redirect to 'p.php?l=x' where x can be anything like home, help, contact, etc. how do i go about acheiving this using a mod rewrite in apache?

i tried:
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ p.php?l=$1

but when i try to echo $_GET['l'], i get p.php? what am i doing wrong?
thanks in advance

 

[Drakkon]

http://www.mod-rewrite-wizard.com/ - use this - works great 😀
Provided your going for using something like http://www.example.com/home:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /p.php?l=$1 [L]