SEO Friendly URLS

[SB_GEMINI]

Hi i want to make http://jokecabin.com have SEO friendly URLS i have looked at the mod_rewrite function here

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Services/Make-Dynamic-URLs-Search-Engine-Friendly/

but as im not a programmer im not to sure how to implement it

instead of >>> http://jokecabin.com/joke.php?p=787

i want something like >>>> http://jokecabin.com/title-joke-goes-here.htm

thxs for any help you can give

 

[Eric]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule jokes-(.*).htm$ /joke.php?p=$1

Which *should* make http://www.jokecabin.com/jokes-joketitle.htm
The code will need to be saved as .htaccess and uploaded to your root directory.

-Eric

 

[SB_GEMINI]

i all ready had a .htaccess so i just added that code to the file.

but it dosnt seem to work... thxs for your help

whoever manages to get this working, gets themsleves $100NP

 

[Ray]

thats a pretty cool fucntion.... howver, now indays google does follow the mystic word of queries

 

[SB_GEMINI]

i dont know if this is of any use, but this is the code for displaying the jokes title on pages

<?=$joke[title];?>

 

[nick-8318]

$data = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $data[1];

$url_info = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $url_info[0];    // Shud be your joke title...not sure  may need to chagne 0 to 1 or something

Adjust $data[1] to $data[2] if necessary...or maybe more

 

[SB_GEMINI]

thxs , where abouts do i add this in the .htaccess file?

 

[nick-8318]

thxs , where abouts do i add this in the .htaccess file?

in your public_html folder if you have one

and that php code ^ there just goes in your php files %%- %%-

 

[SB_GEMINI]

sry its done nothing

this is how i added it

<?PHP

$data = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $data[1];

$url_info = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $url_info[0]; // Shud be your joke title...not sure may need to chagne 0 to 1 or something

?>

i did what you said there and tried putting 1 instead of 0 there, and ive put SecondVersion's code in the .htaccess file aswell...

 

[nick-8318]

sry its done nothing

this is how i added it

<?PHP

$data = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $data[1];

$url_info = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $url_info[0]; // Shud be your joke title...not sure may need to chagne 0 to 1 or something



i did what you said there and tried putting 1 instead of 0 there, and ive put SecondVersion's code in the .htaccess file aswell...

?>


try this and see what changes
<?PHP

for(x=0, x>= 8, x++)
{

$data = explode('/', $PHP_SELF);
echo $data[$x];
}

?>