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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/02/06 18:13
Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> Okay I have been futzing with this for a bit, so a request other
>> viewpoints.
>>
>> Using a website database and you want to present with static URLs so a
>> call to:
>>
>> http://www.example.com/frontend.php?id=2
>>
>> Becomes:
>>
>> http://www.example.com/page/2
>>
>> With .htaccess:
>> RewriteRule ^page/([\d]*) frontend?id=$1 [L]
>>
>> Ok, that takes care of static link in a webpage, but what if you want to
>> get a page as a result of some form query and still want the result to
>> appear as a static URL? Say a page selector form a could go to a
>> intermediate parsing script like:
>>
>> <form action="http://www.example.com/q2url.php">
>> <select name="id">
>> <option value="25">Some page</option>
>> ...
>>
>> Where q2url.php is:
>>
>> $id = $_GET['pageID'];
>> $redirect = "http://www.example.com/page/$id";
>> header("Location: $redirect");
>>
>> So the result will appear again as a static:
>> http://www.example.com/page/25
>>
>> Or is there another way to do this with a rewrite rule. If so any
>> advantages/disadvantages?
>
> I can't think of a better way. The initial URL is created by the user-agent,
> and this will always create ?id=NNN URLs. You may intercept the form
> submission using JavaScript, construct the correct URL and use
> window.location. But your q2url.php should still be in place to handle
> non-JS user-agents.
>
> BTW: make sure, your 'page selector' is not the only way to open a page, or
> search engines will not find it.
Yes very true, no this 'page selector ' is in *addition* to the standard
navigation. Just wanted both methods to product the same static URL result.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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