htaccess mod_rewrite rule help

[jasc2k]

hi all,

not sure if this is technically the correct forum but here goes.
I have tried many different code combinations but this seems to be a little too much for me, in short I would like to rewrite the URL from:

http://www.myphaze.co.uk/content/invite.html

to:

http://www.myphaze.co.uk/index.php?id=invite

HOWEVER my problem being I would like to preserve the query string after .html i.e
...content/invite.html?to=james&from=tom
added onto the server side
...index.php?id=invite&to=james&from=tom

(example URL's)
I hope someone understands this lol - my reason for looking at this is for SEO search rankings

any help appreciated
thanks

http://www.myphaze.co.uk

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[jasc2k]

my current progress tests:

#rewriteRule ^content/(.*) index.php?id=$1
#RewriteRule ^content/(.*).html(.*)?$ index.php?id=$1&$2

http://www.myphaze.co.uk

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