how to display the title of page in that pages specific URL/link?

[newbwoi]

Hi, I'm new to PHP and I took on the challenge to build a simple blog using PHP that is similar to wordpress.

 

 

My question is how can I display the title of the entry in the URL of that specific entry page like for example

 

www.example.com/hello-world

 

or real life example would be this random site that i pulled from wordpress

 

http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/

 

and when you click on each blog entry title it redirects to its own page with the title in the URL like so

 

http://lesbonurse.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/i-think-the-word-youre-looking-for-is-possible/

 

and the title of entry that i clicked on the main page is " I think the word youre looking for is possible"

 

I hope you understand what i m trying to acheive, its really complicated to explain when I m new to PHP.

 

My blog script consists of PHP with mysqel and i can get the blog running perfectly except when i click on the entires of my blog the URL is similar to

 

/view.php?$id=246

 

My goal is to change "..../view.php?$id=246" into the title of the entry for example "..../hello-world"

 

 

Is it possible to hide "view.php?$id=246" and change it to title of entry?

 

Can you please help me to solve this problem?

 

[dstar101]

It's not simple to implement  :-\ :-\

Many CMS usese mod_rewrite to achieve this goal....look into mod_rewrite

[inversesoft123]

Method 1:

 

index.php?page=1

index.php?page=2

index.php?page=3

 

can be changed to

 

index1.html

index2.html

index3.html

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index(.*)\.html$ /index.php?&page=$1/ [L]

 

This is the simplest example where apache identifies $1 = number of pages and rewrites here (.*)

 

i.e. RewriteEngine to parse the URLs of the form indexX.html and send the request to the server as index.php?page=X.

 

this will not act as a redirection when the page is visited by visitors or crawlers. For all they know, this is a static HTML page.

 

Now suppose if you used index.php?page=1 you can now use page1.html. And the page value in the URL will still be retrieved in PHP using the same method - $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']

 

the page will still be accessible through the query string form (index.php?page=1) but if you don't link to them, no one will know

 

Now you would probably put that line in a while loop to retrieve all the pages from a table.

 

<?php

echo "<a href='index.php?page=".$PageID."'>".$PageTitle."</a>";

?>

 

Now, you're simply going to form the URL as

 

<?php

echo "<a href='index".$PageID.".html'>".$PageTitle."</a>";

?>

 

[inversesoft123]

Now dealing with title is also much easy as page ID.

 

suppose general link is

 

index.php?page=1&title=hello-world

 

This can be done with rewrite rule

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^index(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&title=$2/ [L]

 

output would be

 

index1/hello-world.html

 

its easy

 

 

[newbwoi]

Thank you so much!

 

I really appreciate it