Mod_rewrite for PHP template

In article <87fzcfiu6e.fsf RemoveThis @bigriver.doilywood.lan>,
tinnedmeat RemoveThis @doilywood.org.uk says...
 > Gazza <gary RemoveThis @garyjones.co.uk.invalid> writes:
 >
  > > What I'd like, is for me to be able to link pages, *and users to be able
  > > to type in page addresses*, as they previously were, but the backend of
  > > the site to know, for instance, that /clubs/tabletennis/ actually means
  > > /clubs/index.php?id=12.
 >
 > Sure you can do this with mod_rewrite but there doesn't seem to be any
 > good way of linking tabletennis to id=12 without resorting to a load
 > of rules.

The solution (see another thread) was to put a column into the table
which I've called club_tag, but could easily just be a unique id, which
when called just inserts the information from that particular row.
See a working (albeit incomplete) version by trying:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.rossmore.org/club/art/" target="_blank">www.rossmore.org/club/art/</a> = <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.rossmore.org/club/index.php?club=art" target="_blank">www.rossmore.org/club/index.php?club=art</a>
similarly for canoeing and climbing.

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Gazza
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