RE: [PHP] Search Engines and PHP

At 09:23 23.01.2001, Kristofer Widholm said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >>If you want to be totally searchengine-safe, do not use variables on the >>url, do not rely on cookies and do not rely on POST variables for the pages >>you want to have the searchengine spider. > >How the heck do you build a dynamic site without URL variables, >cookies, or POST variables? --------------------[snip]-------------------- You could, for example, use a 404 handler. Assume your site, www.yoursite.com, has an existing virtual directory /myapp. However this directory is empty, and directory browsing id forbidden. For this folder you setup a 404 handler that will be called by the web server whenever a folder or page cannot be found. Then you format your urls like this: http://www.yoursite.com/myapp/<PHPSESSID>/<theapp>.php/param1/param2/param3/ This URL does not exist and will be passed to the 404 handler. Within the 404 handler, parse the url, extract the session id and parameters, and execute the <theapp>.php file. Just as an example, ...ebird >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) http://www.1-at-web.at/ ^ ICQ# 13394035