Re: articles in database ????

Nick wrote: > > hi andreas and jeff, > > indexability by search engines was indeed oine of my great concerns....... > from what i understand andreas, you are suggesting i write a show.php script > which has the task of displaying articles given the information one has > given it. For exapmle if the query string was: > http://www.magazine.com/show.php?article=bill gates > bites,author="john%20doe" > show.php would then output html with the title > "bill gates bites by JohnDoe", which would then be indexable by search > engines....... is that what you meant ? (but in that case, how would you get > the url to reflect that change ? Meaning how do you get > http://www.magazine.com/billgatebites.php instead of the above > ?) Hi, I mean you would use the RewriteRule to change something like "http://www.magazine.com/articles/billgatesbites" to "http://www.magazine.com/show.php?art=billgatesbites". That way when you add articles to the database you can reference them (externally) as a regular URL, but you only need one script to display them (the show.php script would get the value of 'art' and look up the article in the database and display it; the user need never know about the show.php script). For more info on Rewrite rules, see http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html. Ciao, Andreas