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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:52:27+00:00

Let it be known that I only have experience making websites with 5 or

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Let it be known that I only have experience making websites with 5 or 6 pages. I’d like to make a PHP Gaming journalism site like http://www.escapistmagazine.com/

The first problem I can think of is that I would have to manually make a page for each game article; that path was obviously not going to work so I decided to store all the articles in a database.

The problem with storing the content in a database was figuring out how to retrieve them. I attached a GET variable to the url so I could retrieve any article from an index.php file; however, I could not hide the GET variable from the url so I ditched that method. I have no free cash to buy a CMS and I have tried free ones like Drupal to great frustration.

Do I have to generate a separate php file for each article? What would a professional/veteran do in my situation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    First, I’d like to state that if you are having trouble finding the patience to set up Drupal, WordPress or similar free CMS’, you would be hard pressed to find the patience to creating one from scratch.

    Having said that, to address the specific request you’re looking for, I believe you want to use mod_rewrite to funnel your requests through a single file, which would, in turn, hand the request off to the appropriate file. Drupal, for instance, uses the following rules:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

    Which routes your URL into a single variable, ‘q’.

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