Need some help with a little php code

my website is build from php so my url's are something like, /php?id=17. Anyways, i want to make the url like /something-something-cool and i want the /php?id=17 page appear on the mew link.

What is the code, or how do you call out php functions to open in different urls? im doing this for better SEO, so i could add custom meta tags for every page. Any suggestions?

 

Use some URL rewriting tool like the one given below:
http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php

I hope this helps.

 

thanks, really nice tool, but, it only changes the url. I need to change the page a bit so i could stick meta tags to it and rename some pages...

 

General Idea for this is:
using mod_rewrite redirect all *.html URLs to one script say index.php.
Inside index.php you analize the page name user requested and decide what id should service the responce. Then you include your /php passing it appropriate id.

 

header('location: http://www.YourSite.com/something-something-cool.php');

this is just a redirect, if you want a perm redirect use .htacess to make the pages point to the new pages.
get the .htaccess code its simple.

 

I came for the same problem with my website www.dom2000.com.ua.

I have created an array of all keywords of articles like and then mapped it to IDs:

$map = array(
'my_page' => 1,
'other_page' => 2,
'super_page' => 3,
);
$rmap = array_flip($map);
$prefix = 'x_';

Code (markup):

All they are started with specific prefix. Then the routers (or any initial script) parses the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], checks if it starts with that prefix and if yes, extracts the ID from mapping array.

function get_id() {
  $id = @$_GET['id'];
  if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $prefix)!==false) {
    $s = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], strlen($prefix));
    if (isset($map[$s]) {$id = $map[$s]; break; };
  }
  return $id;
}

Code (markup):

When you create links, you search array for ID and get the keywords part of it:

function url_by_id($id) {
  $url = '/?id='.$id;
  if (isset($rmap[$id])) $url = $prefix.$rmap[$id];
  return $url;
}

Code (markup):

Here are a few examples (in Ukrainian), $prefix='kiev_':

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