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May 25, 2010
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31 / M / Mumbai, IN
Say I have web pages with titles and I want to generate seo friendly urls for them. For example, if the title is "The monsoon is on its way" then I would try to generate a url from the title such as http://example.com/monsoon-is-on-its-way . The pages have a original url that consists of paramters such as page_number etc. One way of doing this is by using the htaccess file with rewrite rules. This is not a great solution as I have to write one rule for each page and there are tens of thousands of pages. Do you know of any alternative techniques to achieve the same?

*seo*

seo, pretty-url

I am using LAMP stack
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    Scott S.
    M / Canberra ACT, AU
    Knows about: WSS
    When I have done such a thing I have used mod_rewrite http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
    Friend 1
    31 / M / Mumbai, IN
    Thanks!

    I believe this approach uses the .htaccess file. I actually have tens of thousands of pages and plan to maintain all of them. So if the .htaccess files is used, it is soon going to become pretty large and I'll start taking a hit via disk access.
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    Scott S.
    M / Canberra ACT, AU
    Knows about: WSS
    check out the front controller pattern, http://onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/07/08/front_controller.html
    Friend 1
    31 / M / Mumbai, IN
    This is useful stuff man. Much appreciated.

    Mithun
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    Scott S.
    M / Canberra ACT, AU
    Knows about: WSS
    no worries mate, hope it helps

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