Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Link simplification proposal

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

On 4 Nov 2004, at 17:35, Matthew McNaney wrote:

> I talked to Steven about mod_rewrite at lunch today and we have come to
> the conclusion to continue to use it.
>
> Although the mod_rewrite may be slower:
> 1) if speed is your concern, it can be disabled
> 2) it can't be any slower than having php compute the translation
>
> This is just something that people will need to accept. If you can't 
> use
> mod_reroute, then you will need to go without it. Your site will be
> perfectly functional, you just won't be able to use short urls.

That's fair enough.

I'd perhaps suggest that if we're to create a function to create the 
short urls, if someone wants to do it differently, they could replace 
the function themselves anyway.


Shaun
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