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notepad
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: Best URI Structure? |
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Hello,
I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, I tried to find a search option for the forum, but I couldn't find one.
Anyways, I am in the process of making a e-commerce store. And I am doing it with flat php files, so I can have the URLs however I wan't them. But, I can't decide how to set them up. As I have them now, to get to chandeliers for example (wi4546-112 is a model of one of the chandeliers):
/indoor-lighting/
/indoor-lighting/chandeliers/
/indoor-lighting/chandeliers/wi4546-112.php
But I have read some discussions saying that the URLs should be more like this:
/indoor-lighting
/indoor-lighting/chandeliers
/indoor-lighting/chandeliers/wi4546-112
I'm not sure what to do here... Any advice?
I would be open to other URL style suggestions too.
Thanks,
Brandon |
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SeO
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Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: Re: Best URI Structure? |
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Welcome 
If you plan to go for only one sub level for categories, and install your script at the root level, it's ok to go for a double virtual folder structure :
Like : /indoor-lighting/chandeliers/wi4546-112.php
Though, you should keep the last part (wi4546-112.php) reasonably short.
About the suffixes, it will be easier to keep the ending "/" and .php (or .html) if you want to use personalized rewriterules for each cases, with something like :
| Code: | | RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9]+/[a-z0-9]+/[a-z0-9]+-([0-9]+)\.html /script.php?id=$1[QSA,L,NC] |
Otherwise, I'm pretty sure you'll have to send all case to a single script and deal with the REQUEST_URI php wise. |
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notepad
Joined: 17 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: Best URI Structure? |
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Hey,
I can't say for sure I will only go one sub level...As I grow, I will probably add 2 sub-categories for certain lighting styles. And you think I should end the pages in "/"? Like this:
/indoor-lighting/chandeliers/wi4546-112/
Or did I misunderstand you? I'm not sure what you mean by the REQUEST_URI, could you expand on that?
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dcz
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Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Best URI Structure? |
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Well, the thing is it's easier and safer to deal with delimiters in rewriterules.
In :
| Code: | | RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]+/[a-z0-9_-]+/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)\.html /script.php?id=$1[QSA,L,NC] |
The slash help out to determine if the uri structure is appropriate. It looks for some text, (a-z), numbers (0-9) hyphens and underscores separated with "/", the last part ending with .html helps out to find the end of the uri string to match. The hyphen before the id helps out to locate the id to capture.
With uri like :
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some-text/some-text |
and :
| Code: | | some-text/some-text/some-text-xx |
It will be a bit harder to deal with uri in the intermediate level :
| Code: | | some-text/some-text-xx |
in the .htacess, but it's still possible. The common alternative (used by wordpress for example) is to redirect all to a single file and compute the required information (categories and items) using the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] value. The idea is to match the part of the uri string to tell what content to output.
About the standards, you could do something similar to the advanced phpBB3 mod rewrite, eg only inject the parent category in the items urls :
| Code: | master-cat/product-xx.html
sub-cat/product-xx.html |
This would still be an interesting standard to play with, while you would never be limited by sub levels growth.
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