HTML CODE:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z])(.html)$ dictionary.php?action=search&by=$0
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z])\/$ /$1 [R]

RewriteRule ^([A-Z]+)([a-z)]+)([0-9)]+)\.html$ dictionary.php?action=search&by=$1&nr_page=$3

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(.html)$ dictionary.php?action=show&word=$1


PHP CODE:

FUNCTION dictMenu( $TE )
{
      $menu = 'A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z';
      $menu = explode('|', $menu);

        FOREACH ($menu as $key => $val) {
             $LinkUrl = linkMode ( $val, '?action=search&by=' );
             $TE->assign( 'DICT_LINK_' . $val, $LinkUrl);

        }
}

//--AND the following function for creating links
FUNCTION linkMode ( $Value, $Uri = '' )
{
        $Value = str_replace(' ', '_', $Value );
        IF ( DICT_MODE_REWRITE == TRUE ) {
             $Url =  DIC_URL . $Value . '.html';
        }ELSE{
             $Url = DIC_URL . FILE_INDEX . $Uri . $Value ;
        }
        RETURN $Url;



When I click on the ABC links the
PHP Code:
print_r($_GET) = Array ( [action] => search [by] => S [word] => )
when I click on one of the words generated by clicking on a letter S
PHP Code:
print_r($_GET) =Array ( [action] => show [word] => Swingdance [by] => ) 
}