Re: PHP Application Structre

Ashley Sheridan wrote:

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:48 +0530, chetan rane wrote:

Hi all, mod rewrite was actually inrduced to have search engne frendly urls. hnce if you want a seo site then you have to use options 1 & 2. using smarty or any templating engine for readibility is not total true. one of the major advantages of using template engines is caching

I've read some {disparaging?) comments on "option 2", but I've got a question, or point, about that. I'm not at all sure that you have to use "mod_rewrite" at all, can't you just use a FORCETYPE directive on your handler script(s)? I've certainly got some work in the form: somesite.com/scriptname/var1/var2/var3 that seems to work well with no use of the rewrite module.

Aside from the fact that I've yet to find any actual evidence that search engines treat what most people consider 'search engine friendly' urls any different from the 'unfriendly dynamic' ones. Next time you search for something online have a look at the URLs and see how many belong to forums with dynamic URLs. More than you'd think I would imagine, but it does go a long way to prove that most search engines don't give much credence to the URL these days. Of course, it does help if your keywords are in the URL, but I've not noticed much of a difference between: somesite.com/page-about-subject and somesite.com/?page=page-about-subject

I think that this may be an artifact of an earlier time. There was a time when SE's didn't do so well with query strings, but it'd be a little silly to think their owners didn't realize this and left things exactly the way they were back in 2002 ... wouldn't it? My $0.02, Kevin Kinsey