Can .htaccess urls be redirected like this? - regex

Question

I have my .htaccess set up and it is working great for links like:
http://localhost:8888/z-jquery/view
http://localhost:8888/z-jquery/search
so it is removing .php extension and also redirecting if they are typed in manually which is perfect but I also need my other urls like:
http://localhost:8888/z-jquery/edit?client=dane+kasbo
to be like this if possible:
http://localhost:8888/z-jquery/dane+kasbo
this is my .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /z-jquery/
## hide .php extension
# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L,NC]
## To internally redirect /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]
Note: I have searched a lot of .htaccess questions here but none work for me, any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /z-jquery/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /edit(?:\.php)?\?client=([^&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R,L,NE]
## hide .php extension
# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L,NE]
## To internally redirect /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ edit.php?client=$1 [L,QSA]