Clean URLs

[antares]

I've been looking for tutorials and/or examples on how to change a messy url into a nice looking one.

Like:
http://example.com/index.php?type=ar...itten=20020322

Goes to:
http://example.com/article/200203226

The ones I found don't give enough detail to start and just kinda expect you to know some stuff first. Anyone know a site?

Thanks

[ht1815]

Maybe something like this? Should be a start anyway.

<?

$clean_url = 'http';
if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
   $clean_url .= "s";
}
$clean_url .= "://";
if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
   $clean_url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"];
} else {
   $clean_url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
}

echo $clean_url."/";
foreach($_GET as $key => $val){
   echo $val."/";
}
?>

[svidgen]

To clarify, you want a user to be able to type in http://example.com/article/200203226 and see the content currently at http://example.com/index.php?type=ar...itten=20020322 ?

Is the site running on apache? or IIS?

[antares]

Sorry to the mods for having to move this, but thanks.

@Ht1815, I don't even know where to put that. I feel that my php skills have improved quite a bit since joining this forum but I still lack in certain areas.

@Svidgen, I guess that's what I'm wanting. I also want to be able to send them to http://example.com/article/200203226 from urls embedded in my pages... for SEO purposes... I believe the site is currently running IIS 7.0 it's a godaddy hosted site, with a windows hosting package (I'd like to switch to linux but the guy who owns the account is stubborn)

[svidgen]

IIS has a GUI for setting this sort of thing up. You can write some rules in .htaccess/mod_rewrite format initially, if you like, and then import them into IIS.

The mod_rewrite rule might look something like this:

^article/([0-9]+)$ index.php?ArticleID=$1  [L,QSA]

... But, it might be easiest just to open the IIS administration app and start poking around in the URL rewriting area.

[antares]

I guess I need to really look into changing the host account to a linux because godaddy doesn't allow any changes to the IIS besides blocking directories.

I don't even understand this mod_rewrite thing, any idea where I should go to learn about stuff like that?

[svidgen]

Umm ... I'm not sure about tutorials or how-tos. But, Apache has its own documentation on the matter: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html