[thelist] ?type=icecream to /icecream
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 14:47:01 CDT 2008
On 4/8/08, John Allsopp <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:
> A basic question for all you out there, but one I've never used (because
> I believe the search engines now read ?s quite happily, but perhaps I'm
> wrong about that), but now I have a client that's insisting on it (I
> think the milkman told him it's a good idea).
>
> So
>
> What's the PHP or server tool/plugin/function thing I have to use to get
> my URLs to be, for instance, /food/icecream when what's really going on
> is ?type=food&name=icecream
>
> And what, in outline, do I need to do. Does it just seamlessly work, or
> do I need to change my code or what?
Are you using PHP on Apache? If so, assuming there is no /food
directory, it will execute index.php and the full path will be
available in environment variables which you could then tokenize.
Alternatively, you could use mod_rewrite:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
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