Re: [Phpslash-devel] How many page scripts do we need?

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:31:26PM -0700, Aric Caley wrote:
> Just wanted to chime in that I think this is A Good Idea.
> 
> Take it all the way to index.php.
> 
> I'd also like to see it work without the ? and &.  For example:
> 
> index.php/story/admin
> index.php/backend/rss
> 
> The first part ('story') could be always interpreted as the module name, the
> second part the page.  After that can be interpreted any way the module
> chooses.
> 

In the past I have done this with mod_rewrite rules for the section 
index pages, article pages and search results.

Most of the changes could be made in the templates.  How true that 
is now days, I don't know.

> This makes search engines happier.  Looks purty too.
> 

Since google spiders with ? and & fine it is less of an issue.  The 
other SE's are catching up.  Path like arguments are definitely 
better looking for email and conveying to someone else.

Joe