Seo Url

I need help with doing SEO URLs like:

test.com/category/this-is-simple-text.html

I have url like this:
test.com/showpost.php?cat=4&post=56

I search the net about this, but all i found is something with .htaccess, and i don't know how to do that.

Any Help?

 

.htaccess is the only way I know. You can use htaccess by just creating a file named .htaccess, then putting the code you found online

 

I think you need to use mod rewrite

 

You can refer to Joomla for .htaccess.
If you want to use PHP to do SEO URL, the format should be
test.com/index.php/category/this-is-simple-text.html

 

in .htaccess you will translate back all test.com/category/this-is-simple-text.html pages to test.com/showpost.php?cat=4&post=56 so that your php code knows what to do with them.
But before that you have to change your script i.e. add a preg_replace() function for each possible url to change it to something like test.com/category/this-is-simple-text.html inside your script
It's not so simple so if you don't have experience it's better to find a mod that does it for your forum/site..

 

Read this post : http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23044

Hope it helps

Thanks