auto generate hundreds of pages

[kabs]

I have a php website.  There is a dynamic page that works like this:

 

www.mywebsite/carpage.php?car_id=1

www.mywebsite/carpage.php?car_id=2

www.mywebsite/carpage.php?car_id=3

....etc. to car_id=500

 

The variable (car_id=1, 2, 3, ...500) is passed from the url to the sql query in the page code.  Let's say 1= Ford Pickup, 2=Ford Focus, 3=Dodge Durango.

 

What I want to do is create a bunch of pages like this:

 

www.mywebsite/ford_pickup.php

www.mywebsite/ford_focus.php

www.mywebsite/dodge_durango.php

 

In these pages, I'd like the variable to be hard-coded into the sql query ideally.  if I still have to have the vairable in the url, that would be the end of the world, but ideally I can remove all the variable strings from the url.

 

How I can do this now:  Open a page in Dreamweaver, edit the code to hard-code the correct car_id in the sql query.  Save AS the file as ford_pickup.php.  Repeat 500 times.

 

I figure there is something out there to help me with this, but all searches for Auto Generate Webpages and similiar are yielding no-so-good results.

 

Any thoughts on how to get on the right track here much appreciated!!

[sKunKbad]

kabs, don't do that. Look for some tutorials on Mod Rewrite.

[teng84]

better to use dynamic pages! that is why we have PHP

having a hundreds of pages is very hard to maintain and time consuming

[bwochinski]

As has been said, you really don't want to generate hundreds of pages.  The ideal solution for this situation is to use ModRewrite.  I'd recommend adding another directory to your pathname, to keep the .htaccess simple.  Something along the lines of:

http://www.carwebsite.com/model/ford focus

 

Then in the /model/ folder put an .htaccess file with something like this...

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /model/$1/ [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /model/carpage.php?model=$1 [NC]

 

You would still do your processing in /model/carpage.php, pulling records by model.

Be sure to do plenty of data checking.