search friendly urls and sessions

[neugi]

Hi,

 

i've a little problem

 

i've written a little script that should make my urls "search friendly".

 

the only problem now it how i can handle the session without cookies?

 

old url index.php?page=1&newsID=2&PHPSID=2384234...

new url index/1/2/???

 

how can i handle the session_id in such urls i've tried to attache them in de last part but after every call of a page a new SID is calculated.

 

maybes somebody has an idea

 

thx

 

 

[per1os]

That PHPSID in the url defeates the whole purpose of SEO, it needs to be stored in the cookie.

 

Either way after session_start() you can set the id with session_id($sessidhere);

 

And that should restore the session.

 

 

[per1os]

An explination why sessid in the url does not do good SEO is that because it makes the URL obscenely long without any important data. Also the index/1/2 is not very good either as it does not provide words.

 

I would probably do something like index/page1/news2 or if the news has a title do that title like such

 

index/page2/news-title-here-2  (where 2 is the id) this would provide for multiple news titles that are the same.

 

Just some FYI, I have done extensive research on SEO. To be honest I would probably remove the index out of there too, but yea =)

 

 

[neugi]

That PHPSID in the url defeates the whole purpose of SEO, it needs to be stored in the cookie.

 

but how transfer the session if no cookies are allowed?

 

best

[per1os]

There is no other way other than if that person does not allow cooies (like 2% of the world) than they are SOL.

 

I make it a point that cookies ARE required.