Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Link simplification proposal

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 2 Nov 2004, at 18:22, Steven Levin wrote:

>
> Old links will still work, but code will have to be updated to generate
> the new syntax.
>

That's the key. There needs to be a core function to generate a short  
url.

I can't say I'm too thrilled with having lots of stubs around to pick  
up the short urls and calling one 'pagemaster.php' is a bit long also.  
;-)

Would it not be possible for index.php to convert a short url into a  
long one?

eg.

index.php?page=1
index.php?forum=1&thread=5
index.php?link=3

Each module would have to register a short url to long translation with  
the core.

That would make mod_rewrite rules dead easy also if needed at all.

I raised this in an RFE some time ago -  
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=857459&group_id=15539&atid=365539

The other alternative is the 'node' approach. Give every url a node  
number and hold a table mapping nodes to actual urls. I think that's  
how  Drupal works. How this fits in with versioning and workflow may  
need investigating.


Shaun
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk