hidden my id

[hengwebdeveloper]

i just finished my website my design as below
database
tblmenu
-menu_id (primary key)
-menu_name
tblsubmenu
-menu_id (foreign key)
-sub_menu_id (primary key)
-sub_menu_name
when i click the menu it display my menu_id
http://localhost/index.php?menu_id=1
how to hide this id i try to used uniqid() but it have problem with my sub menu because it call an id from menu then compare in database any good solution for this? i wan to use md5 or uniqid to hide it
thanks,

[StarLion]

Why? I mean, you CAN do it, but... why? Whats the difference between id=1 and id=129038823129387abbcff

[K. Wolfe]

Most people go the other way and use a user friendly slug:

tbl_pages
--------
page_id
slug //used to search for pages and pull it up

http://localhost/index.php?menu_id=1 then becomes http://localhost/index.php?slug=my_page_slug, and then further you can use mod rewrite to change this to http://localhost/my_page_slug

[cpradio]

Most people go the other way and use a user friendly slug:

tbl_pages
--------
page_id
slug //used to search for pages and pull it up

http://localhost/index.php?menu_id=1 then becomes http://localhost/index.php?slug=my_page_slug, and then further you can use mod rewrite to change this to http://localhost/my_page_slug

Or for simpler terms you could go from http://localhost/my_menu_name/1 to http://localhost/index.php?menu_id=1 so that you don't have to alter your code to convert your menu name to its id, you can simply read the id from the URL still.

[hengwebdeveloper]

i think because of my function compare
SELECT * FROM tblmenu WHERE menu_id = 129038823129387abbcff
that why it not work if i substr($strid,0,1) but when the number reach about 10,100,1000 how i gonna do?

[hengwebdeveloper]

Dear K.Wolfe, cpradio
yes i did here my rewrite url
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.php$ index.php?menu_id=$1 [QSA]
#RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ menu.php?ph_sc_menu_id=$1
it not working also and i already test
RewriteRule index.htm index.php [L] #it point to index.php it mean my mod_rewrite work
now i have no choice because my domain and hosting waiting for me that's why i almost crazy

regards,
heng

[K. Wolfe]

This is just wrong:

i think because of my function compare
SELECT * FROM tblmenu WHERE menu_id = 129038823129387abbcff
that why it not work if i substr($strid,0,1) but when the number reach about 10,100,1000 how i gonna do?

If you want your display url to be long, then you need to make your ID in the table that long ID, dont run some sort of substr() or anything similar.