search engine friendly urls

[JamesM]

I'm trying to get my head around this but can't

I've read numerous articles and tried different .htaccess things but for some reason it just doesn't seem to work, yet wordpress works fine so I know it's not my host.

I'm trying to do a similar thing to wordpress so that blog post headers and property addresses are in the url and page title.

The website format is as follows

index.php
- blog.php
-- blog.php?blogid=121
- forsale.php
-- forsale.php?propid=321

etc

all I want is to remove .php from the page urls and to change

blog.php?blogid=121

into

blog/title-of-blog-here/

Any pointers?

 

[GravyMonster]

The technique is called URL Rewriting. It's easy as pie in PHP:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/02/introduction-to-url-rewriting/

 

[JamesM]

Tried those

Do I still link everything on the page to blog.php?blogid=121 or do I change my link structure to /blog/121/

?

 

[GravyMonster]

You would need to change your link structure to use the rewritten versions.

 

[JamesM]

Ok thank you, will give it another shot

 

[touch]

Ignore, misread OP

 

[JamesM]

Right using this one

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php (second answer down with 11)

The home page works (inc/home.php) however when trying to use "/page/blog" or "/page/contact" it comes up with

Warning: include(/var/sites/s/steve-morris1.co.uk/public_html/new/inc/page.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/sites/s/steve-morris1.co.uk/public_html/new/index.php on line 126

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/var/sites/s/steve-morris1.co.uk/public_html/new/inc/page.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /var/sites/s/steve-morris1.co.uk/public_html/new/index.php on line 126

And I cant seem to find out why

My array is

$rules = array( 
    'picture'   => "/picture/(?'text'[^/]+)/(?'id'\d+)",    // '/picture/some-text/51'
    'album'     => "/album/(?'album'[\w\-]+)",              // '/album/album-slug'
    'category'  => "/category/(?'category'[\w\-]+)",        // '/category/category-slug'
    'page'      => "/page/(?'page'blog)",     // '/page/about', '/page/contact'
    'post'      => "/(?'post'[\w\-]+)",                     // '/post-slug'
    'home'      => "/"                                      // '/'
);

 

[JamesM]

Right I have semi got it working now!