[FX.php List] url

[Andrew Denman]

Yes, this is what they're using. Do a search on 'URL rewriting' for all the info on URL rewriting you could ever want.  It allows you to create easier to remember, more SEO friendly, or just less cluttered links and re-direct them on the server side to your specific pages.

In that link's specific case it probably redirects to a page product.php, or index.php and invokes code to process a product search, pulling up product 'C110583-CL'.  The rest of the link does not appear to be used by the server and is probably there for SEO.

Example:
http://www.4imprint.ca/product/C110583-CL/Spectator-Travel-Mug-16-oz.-Closeout
Is re-written to either:
/product.php?id=C110583-CL
/index.php?action=product&id=C110583-CL

Note that nothing on the server automatically creates links like this; you'll have to do that through your code.  The server only interprets the links based on rules you give it.

Andrew Denman

-----Original Message-----
From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dale Bengston
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [FX.php List] url

I'm thinking that everything after the domain and the first slash is generated by enabling mod_rewrite in Apache's comfig file.

Dale

On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Someone wrote:

> Hi.
> Anyone know how this is done?
> Place this url ( 
> http://www.4imprint.ca/product/C110583-CL/Spectator-Travel-Mug-16-oz.-
> Closeout ) into your browser and a detail page for this product shows 
> up
> 
> Is this php (or some other language) or the server configuration (like apache) or both.
> 
> Thank
> 
> Frank
> 
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