Thanks for the reply.
I did what you suggested and then defined my Viewer URL as this:
"street_number, street_name, street_suffix, city, state, zip_code, matrix_unique_id"
But my list page's <?php echo $record['_link'] ?> only shows the first field (regardless of what it is) then it still shows the system's record number (i.e. detail-page.php?<field1>-<num>). When you click the link it doesn't go to the correct record either, it goes to the first record in the DB.
Mapping that all out manually with "matrix_unique_id" being the field searched on like this:
<a href="http://www.domain.com/detail-page.php?<?php echo htmlencode($record['street_number']) ?>-<?php echo htmlencode($record['street_name']) ?>-<?php echo htmlencode($record['street_suffix']) ?>-<?php echo htmlencode($record['city']) ?>-<?php echo htmlencode($record['state']) ?>-<?php echo htmlencode($record['zip_code']) ?>&matrix_unique_id=<?php echo htmlencode($record['matrix_unique_id']) ?>">LINK</a>
ALMOST works except the URL breaks because there's spaces (instead of dashes) in the URL where there's spaces in a field (in the example below, after "Austin" and "St.").
http://www.domain.com/detail-page.php?4413-Austin Pass-Drive-St. Charles-MO-63304&matrix_unique_id=31177685
Ultimately, what I want to accomplish is a clean domain like this (with my detail page being the index.php in /homes/):
http://www.domain.com/homes/4413-Austin-Pass-Drive/St.-Charles/MO/63304/31177685/
Is there anyway consulting services could make it so this one table is rewriting over "num" with my matrix_unique_id field (or substituting matrix_unique_id for num when defining records)?
I'd really like to eliminate "matrix_unique_id" from the URL since it doesn't mean anything to anybody except it's the only unique number in the database for searching/saving records (since "num" changes daily). Renaming the field to something shorter (like "id") creates a problem for my import scripts which match the schema to the first line in my txt files (which is defined by the source, not me).
Thanks, Sid