Sessions vs. Parameters

[aldrin151]

Hello everyone, I'm trying build a website and trying to eliminate which parameters are being passed on the url address bar. I'm trying to convert my site which is mostly passing parameters and converting the parameters to sessions. I was wondering if this is a conventional way if I have many parameters for example

 

http://192.168.0.101/test/user_search.php?title=&description=&category=Computer+Services&miles=30&sttileonly=on&FormListResults_Page=&mid=227

 

and also is there an easier way to eliminate the viewing of ?title=&description=&category and so on to the user on the address bar?

 

Thanks 

[hawkenterprises]

What your looking for is a marriage of PATH_INFO and mod_rewrite.

 

 

You can take your url and make it http://<domainname>.tld/Computer_Services/search

 

or something even more appealing to you.  Try searching for Apache Mod_Rewrite on google.  Apache has wonderful documentation but sometimes it's a little heavy for beginners.

[aldrin151]

Thank you very much for the info, I'm gonna look into it and see...

[aldrin151]

One more question, displaying the url on the address bar as http://<domainname>.tld/Computer_Services/search, would it also apply in someone doing a right click on the page and viewing the page address?

 

Thanks

[hawkenterprises]

A simple run down on how it works is as follows

 

[*]Apache Receives Request for a Path (ie /Computer/Services)

[*]Apache checks for any mod_rewrite rules affecting the path requested

[*]Appropriate rewrite rules will feed the path into a query string of index file sitting at the top level of path

[*]php parses index file which has path_info function to deal with what was sent

[*]PHP display appropriate information