another mod rewrite question

[tgavin]

the real page is: /dir/index.php?id=1
I want it to go to: /newdir/page-title/

I have this working. My question is about the actual link on the referring page.

Without mod rewrite, this will be <a href="/dir/index.php?id=1">click here</a>. So, when the user mouses over the link, that's what they see in their status bar, and that's what's also written into the page. Which also means that Google will index that link. Right?

What I would rather have is <a href="/newdir/page-title/">click here</a>. But if I have that, don't I lose the id in the link?

Hopefully this made sense.
How do I overcome this?

[dklynn]

tg,

Yes, that's how it works. YOU have to create the links the way that you want them seen and leave it to mod_rewrite to fetch the proper file.

If you "have this working," what's the problem? I'm sure it'll work fine for id=1 (hardcoded into the mod_rewrite) but for other values, you'll need to use other code. http://wilderness-wally.com uses the page titles to fetch the articles out of the database as well as creating the links in a rather lengthy TOC - the id=1 is only used for the default Home Page which is "Welcome." In other words, it can be done but NOT by trying to convert a title into an id (title must be unique in the db and you need to pay careful attention to converting spaces and not allowing characters not allowed in URIs).

Regards,

DK

[tgavin]

tg,

Yes, that's how it works. YOU have to create the links the way that you want them seen and leave it to mod_rewrite to fetch the proper file.

If you "have this working," what's the problem? I'm sure it'll work fine for id=1 (hardcoded into the mod_rewrite) but for other values, you'll need to use other code. http://wilderness-wally.com uses the page titles to fetch the articles out of the database as well as creating the links in a rather lengthy TOC - the id=1 is only used for the default Home Page which is "Welcome." In other words, it can be done but NOT by trying to convert a title into an id (title must be unique in the db and you need to pay careful attention to converting spaces and not allowing characters not allowed in URIs).

Regards,

DK

thank you.

Yeah, I already have my site working this way. Unfortunately, since it's a user-contributed site some of the titles are duplicating. I thought I had all of that sorted out, but some of it got past me. I was just hoping there might be a way to do the title AND id thing. Call me a dreamer...

[dklynn]

tg,

You CAN but only if you use both in the URI links - and use their id to access the article (the title would be "throw away").

Regards,

DK

[tgavin]

tg,

You CAN but only if you use both in the URI links - and use their id to access the article (the title would be "throw away").

Regards,

DK

what would the link look like? Wouldn't it be /dir/index.php?title=title&id=1 ? That defeats the purpose, no?

[dklynn]

tg,

Yes, THAT would defeat the purpose.

YOU have to decide how you want the URI to look and create the links in that format. Then YOU have to create the mod_rewrite to redirect from the links you've created to what Apache can serve.

Regards,

DK