Friendly URL's

[designtrooper]

If you go to this site https://taxibeat.com/blog/ you will see that the read more links are user-friendly.That is wordpress doing all the job there.

Since though I do not use Wpress I am trying to achieve the same end result.
So the question is from where to begin.
I know and have read about .htaccess and mod_rewrite but I do not know if this is the solution for this case.

Besides having a friendly URL like in the site you see another question is based on what info database queries will be performed.

So,from where do I start?

[designtrooper]

In essence…I want to find a way(if possible) that www.domain.com/blogtitle leads to www.domai.com/blog-id=5...so I can use the ID and get the blog post from the DB.

[SamA74]

There would need to be something in the url which uniquely identifies that blog entry. The title may identify it, but you would then need some kind of look-up to associate the title with the id.
Alternatively, you maybe could use the title as the key to pull the entry from the database.
I think the easiest way is to combine the title and id, something like www.domain.com/5-blogtitle that would give a more meaningful url which includes the title, but also includes the id for the purpose of pulling the data from the database.

[concept_core]

You can use Altorouter in your project.
Basically it does what you want but you need to read through the docs a bit.

[SamA74]

@SamA74

you would then need some kind of look-up to associate the title with the id.

A Rewrite map should work as a look-up.

[designtrooper]

Ι am having difficulty understanding it how to use this AltoRouter.
For example here is the my implementation of the map method

$router->map( 'GET', 'http://localhost/Appointments/Frontend/blog_show.php', function() {
    require __DIR__ . '/views/home.php';
});

As far as I can understand if the browser points to ‘http://localhost/Appointments/Frontend/blog_show.php’
a redirection will take place to vies/home.php.

This does not happen though in my case and I do not know if the code above indeed does that…I am not sure.

The code you see above is placed in blog_show.php

[John_Betong]

@designtrooper

So,from where do I start?

I use a Php Framework and the following .htaccess file which directs everything and nothing to index.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

All you have to do is parse the parameters

[designtrooper]

for now I want to focus with the issue at hand…more specifically with the problem I describe at post 6.

Your idea is not bad…I am planning to do it though at a later stage.

[concept_core]

First off did you read trough the docs ?
If so then you know a little bit how this router is supposed to work.

But to explain a bit more, You should do it like this :

$router->map( 'GET', '/THE-URL-YOU-WANT-TO-SEE', function() {
    require __DIR__ . '/Frontend/blog_show.php'; // File that you load in.
});

[designtrooper]

@concept_core

$router->map( ‘GET’, ‘/THE-URL-YOU-WANT-TO-SEE’, function() {
require DIR . ‘/Frontend/blog_show.php’; // File that you load in.
});

what do you mean when you say the url you want to see.
I am confused a little.

[concept_core]

That function does the following :
You click on a link that sends you to the following url “http://localhost/THE-URL-YOU-WANT-TO-SEE”.
The router knows the link if you set it up and will show the file that it needs to show.
(blog_show.php)

So the map function works like this :

$router->map(
    "TYPE: GET/POST OR GET|POST",
    "url that you want to be able to use",
    "class#method", // incase you use autoloading.
    "route name"
)

Did you read through the docs and the closed issues on github ?
If not do that before you directly come back with a question.

Also the example shows how to use the router.

Check out the website to btw : http://altorouter.com/
Best regards.

[designtrooper]

Ι tried what you describe above and still cannot make it work.Let me explain:
In blog_show.php I have this link

<a href="http://localhost/Appointments/Frontend/blog_show.php">test allrouter</a>

I have also this code in blog_show.php

$router->map( 'GET', '/', function() {//for all GET requests
    require __DIR__ . '/views/home.php';
});

From what I have understand when the link is clicked I should be redirected to blog_show.php.
This does not happen.

Surely I miss something…but what.