[thelist] url question...

Robert Vreeland vreeland at studioframework.com
Thu Sep 29 22:18:29 CDT 2005


I'm looking at a similar situation and the solution I'm implementing is as
follows:
1. Take all the processing and page building code and put it into an include
file.
2. Modify the code to use a hard coded variable rather then the get url.
3. For each unique company, create a 'pretty' url page with the hard coded
variable set to the correct value and include the include file.

You can set up as many pages as you want with the url you want, plus you get
the added advantage of adding 80+ 'new' pages of content - at least as far
as the search engines are concerned.

Hope this helps,
Robert Vreeland 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Justin Zachan
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:37 PM
To: List
Subject: [thelist] url question...

Hi there.

A current website client requires a change in the way urls for their
distributors are displayed. each distributor has its own page of data.

A web user will search for an individual distributor via a number of paths
which results in page for that distributor, but all the distributor data
(there are about 80 or so) is dynamically populated from the database with a
url like

http://www.xxxxxxx.com.au/view_distributor.php?id=14&ajwilson

What the client wants is something like... 

http://www.xxxxxxx.com.au/distributors/ajwilson.php

So in summary they don't want a long php string like
"view_distributor.php?id=14&ajwilson"

They want a simple ajwilson.php which looks nice and simple, and they want
to use the url string to easily promote each of their distributors etc.

Anyway I hope that makes sense. If someone has an idea on a simple solution,
ideally without reinventing the backend, it would help immensely.

Sorry for using a dummy url... I don't want my client to be able to search
on my question...

Cheers

Justin


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