Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Shorter links solutions

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

> Kenneth's idea of "shortcuts" is a
> good one, but I would rather see short URL's than another core module
> and another layer of admin.  I would like to see phpWebsite be KISS
> friendly (Keep It Simple Stupid).

I think that having
site.com/picnic

would be much simpler than
site.com/article1_3.html

Shortcuts would allow people to actually tell people about a web
address. After reading your suggestions, howver, I am thinking that the
shortcut should have the .html on the end.

The downside to the shortcut is that the url in the address bar can't
remain the same because a header location command would control the
redirection.

> RewriteRule ^page([1-9][0-9]*)-([1-9][0-9]*).html$ ...

In the example above, the link specifically is engineered to work with
pagemaster. The action is view, the first number is the id, etc. There
is nothing wrong with a specific module coming up with their own set of
rules. If this is the case, the developer can tell the site admin to
copy the line into the .htaccess file.

What is needed however is a _generic_ mod_rewrite scheme that developers
can use out of the box. The first version of .htaccess has default
values. I just ran into problems when I had to add page to the mix. So I
had to develop something that would accommodate any type of link you
could throw at it. Getting too specific with variables will close off
link options. 

There is another possibility I just thought of. The shortcut module
could write to the .htaccess file itself.

After registering the key word to a page, article, whatever, you could
just push a button and shortcut would write the file.

Also when a module is installed for the first time, you could register
your specific mod_rewrite line and it would get added.

What do you think of that? 

Matt

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Matthew McNaney
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu