Hi, I'm having a hard time with .htacces. I want to create friendly URLs for a site I'm working on...

Basically I want to convert this:

http://website.com/index.php?ctrl=pelicula&id=0221889
http://website.com/index.php?ctrl=pelicula&id=0160399&tab=posters

Into this:

http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/
http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/posters/

In case I need it later I would also want to know how to add the article title to the end of the URL like this (I'm using PHP):

http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/the-article-name/
http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/the-article-name/posters/

Note: Stackoverflow method is also good for me, for example the url of this question is:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033407/htacces-to-create-friendly-urls-help-needed

But you can put anything after the id and it will also work. like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033407/just-anything-i-want

I have used some automatic web tools for creating the .htacces file, but its not working correctly. So I ask for your help.

I will also be glad if you can recommend .htacces best practices and recommendations..

Thanks!