Question

Do anyone have tips on how to create more readable links to pages?

I do not know what the correct term is, but wordpress have a feature called permalink, which tidy up the url so that is more readable (eg. http://example.com/2012/post-name/).

What I am looking for does not necessarily have to be the same technique as the one wordpress use.

Or is the only simple solution good old directory structure?

Thank you!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

Answer 1

You’ve got to use mod_rewrite. If you are using a paid hosting service, chances are you already have this enabled in Apache. If not, there are lots of tutorials on building it.

Now plan how you want your URLs to look like. For example, you want to turn http://yoursite.com/tutorials.php?req=tutorial&id=3&page=0 into http://yoursite.com/tutorials/3/0.php

Open or create your .htaccess file and add something like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^tutorials/(.*)/(.*).php /tutorials.php?req=tutorial&tut_id=$1&page=$2

Note the pattern: (.*) are where variables, such as $1 are placed, in order.

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