[thelist] url question...

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 29 11:23:21 CDT 2005


Well, you set a cookie with the session id, instead of
passing it in the urls.



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

> Hi. I am not sure what setting a cookie would do (I
> guess we could but not
> an option I would prefer), but they want it just for
> promotional purposes...
> each of the distributors has a tidy looking url they
> can promote.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Ettinger
> [mailto:apwebdesign at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 1:30 PM
> To: justin at jazzmanagement.com.au;
> thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] url question...
> 
> 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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