Question

I have a build a web portal based on the Cricket concept,
I have build a Custom based CMS where I can upload the News for the site

Once I upload the news, the URL Will be like this
http://cricandcric.com/news/news.php?id=841&An-emotional-moment:-Dhoni.html

But I am trying to have the above Url as follows (some thing like this)
http://cricandcric.com/news/An-emotional-moment:-Dhoni.html

Or similar to Stackoverflow.com,

Can any one please help me how can i build that?
Do I need to rewrite the URL ?

Answer 1

Yes, this is typically done with URL rewriting. This is a great intro to it.

Note that you’ll have to make sure that the titles are unique, if you’re removing the ID from the URL. (And you might as well get rid of the “.html” too)