Question

I am learning .net and building a site that uses url routing.

I have it working although when attempting to get data from a database i am having to pass a ID parameter such as:

services/{id}/{category}/{subcategory}

portfolio/{id}/{category}/{title}

blog/{date}/{id}/{title}

I have seen websites that do the same thing but they don’t appear to be passing an ID parameter, how do they acheive this?

if they wanted the information on a particular service as per the link above would you just run an SQL query looking for a match on the subcategory name or for a blog post you look for a match on the blog title and date?

It just seems a bit strange to me and if you have people adding blog posts etc there is always the slim possibility of more than one match.

Thanks for any help,

J.

Answer 1

You can always check the name of your blog post url before you release it. If it exists, just add a “_1” or something. In addition they mostly include the date.