SEO Friendly URLS

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Last Post: March 14, 2008   (RSS)

By avrom - March 14, 2008

Hey Dave,

I already read a post on the SEO Friendly URLs. However I really don't understand why there are trailing slashes in the URL. Is this in case a client edits fields and changes the name of them ? Can the trailing slashes not be removed ?

newsPage.php?4/ to display newsPage.php?4

Thanks so much for the time. Cheers :)
Avrom

Re: [virgodesign] SEO Friendly URLS

By Dave - March 14, 2008

The idea is to create a url that looks like a directory, like this: newsPage.php/news_title_here-4/ or this newsPage.php?news_title_here-4/ If you have $options['titleField'] set it will use that fieldname value in the link.

There's a few ways to remove it. To hardcode links like you specified you could just replace <?php echo $record['_link'] ?> with: newsPage.php?<?php echo $record['num'] ?>

Or to remove it in the code you could search for (and remove) this in /lib/viewer_functions.php:

. "/"

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com