[thelist] url question...

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 28 22:29:36 CDT 2005


Can you set a cookie with a unique id and use a
session table?

I'm guessing they want the pretty urls for seo,
inwhich case cookies are probably not a good idea on
the outside.



--- Justin Zachan <justin at jazzmanagement.com.au>
wrote:

> 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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