[RESOLVED] Beautiful URLs

[Greyfish]

I'm making my own blogging system and I want to have a way where the viewer can see one individual blog at a time but instead of using a link like this...

example.com/blog/index.php?id=1234

I want it to look like this, using the post title

example.com/blog/title

How do I do that?

[chazzy]

you need a url rewriter, and a way of translating accordingly. You can have title as the ending item, but you need to ensure that title is unique. probably by limiting by user.

edit: it's specific based on the server it runs on. if you use apache httpd, you can look at this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

[Greyfish]

Alrighty then! Thankyou!

[SyCo]

There is a way to do this if your server allows it.

a url of
example.com/blog/title

will first look for
example.com/blog/title/index.html

then
example.com/blog/title/index.php

and whatever else it's set up to look for and will serve and index if it finds one.

Of course it's a bit clunky as you need a directory for each clean URL. Each directory needs an index page but that index page can use a header location to redirect to anywhere on the server.