Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Link simplification proposal

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

> See  
> http://www.tutorio.com/tutorial/php-alternative-to-mod-rewrite-for-se-
> friendly-urls for an example

Flash overload!

I like the example, and I can code support for it even though it still
requires Apache. Is there a noticeable difference in speed between
letting php parse the string and letting mod_rewrite compute the link?
Is mod_rewrite unpopular?

The site claims:
"Because doing mod_rewrite on sites with a lot of pages takes up a large
amount of resources."

Are they programming a rewrite on a per link basis? Currently 0.9.4 has
just one rule (although admittedly it is not very flexible).


> Couldn't we just do this with a minor change in index.php?
> 
> Add a stub in each module to encode / decode short urls and change each  
> module as we go to call the functions to convert long urls to short  
> ones. 
> 
> We could then even lose the index.php with a really simple mod_rewrite  
> or forcetype rule rather than some massive list.

I'll play around with this tomorrow. How about:

www.site.com/index/pagemaster/action/view/id/4

'index' remains to call the file (is there a .htaccess hack to drop this
as well?). The first parameter after the index is always the module
(pagemaster). Then the script pipes the remaining parameters into
key/value pairs within GET and REQUEST.

The moduleLink and secureLink functions can have a switch to deliver the
links in this format or not automatically.



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Matthew McNaney
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Appalachian State University
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