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Name instead of ID in URL

Thread began 6/05/2012 5:10 am by Stuward | Last modified 6/05/2012 10:12 am by Stuward | 914 views | 2 replies |

6/05/2012 5:10 am | #1 Stuward

Name instead of ID in URL

For search optimization of the news pages, I like to replace the ID for a name.

For example:

instead of:
news.php?ID=3

something like:
news.php?ID=this-url-is-optimized

Is this possible? Some coding is fine...

Kind regards, Stuward

6/05/2012 8:33 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

SEO Friendly URLS is accomplished at the server level not the application level by using mod_rewrite in apache.

see the following page for an introduction to using mod rewrite for SEO Friendly URLS:
www.easymodrewrite.com/

6/05/2012 10:12 am | #3 Stuward

Thank you Jason, i will explore the link and apache!

Regards, Stuward

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