Custom Url: Change Post.php?id=12 To Post/title-Goes-Here

[Lambneck]

Hi,

I am trying to make my dynamic urls more attractive/memorable by using the associated blog entry's title instead of the unique id passed in the url.

 

Currently the address looks something like the following:

 

www.example.com/post.php?id=5

 

What I want it to look like is:

 

www.example.com/title-of-article-goes-here

 

Does anyone know a simple way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[lemmin]

You will have to configure your server to achieve this. Assuming you are using Apache, here is a tutorial I found on Google!

 

http://wettone.com/code/clean-urls

 

You can just search for "clean urls" if you want a different tutorial

[Lambneck]

Ok thank you very much!" Clean URLs", now i got the nomenclature and now I have some functions that strip special characters but how do I acctually get the title into the url instead of the unique id and is there a clever way to still retain uniqueness of the url?