php - Query redirect and clean up

Solution:

You can use.htaccess file with mod_rewrite module enabled on Apache2

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^stats/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ stats.php?player=$1 [NC]
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You can follow this simple tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-mod_rewrite

In this case I used a simple regex in the RewriteRule, you can customize your regex whatever you like

EDIT: exceptions for static files

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(public|css)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
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please, read the docs