SEOUrl - Easy Search-Engine-Friendly URLs.

Unfortunately that requires URL Rewriting, which must be done at a web-server level. Assuming you are using Apache, you’ll want to look at the mod_rewrite module, which should be available in your current installation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

A helpful guide for doing this can be found at Nettuts+:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/a-deeper-look-at-mod_rewrite-for-apache/

It may look a bit daunting at first, but it’s actually very simple once you grasp the basic concept.

Once you’ve done that, SEOUrl can still help you get descriptive URLs, without requiring any modifications.

Good luck!

Wow, thanks for the super fast response, I wasn’t expecting that.

I did find your demo a bit mis-leading however, as I got the impression it did remove the file name AND extension.

For example, in the documentation, you wrote:
yoursite.com/articles/1-Hello-world!-the-very-first-article.

However, you are saying this CAN ’T be achieved through this plugin, as the some_file.php is still in the URL .

Also, I thought that the whole point of SEO was to make the URL ’s completely friendly? I mean, to an extent, these do look friendly, but can’t anybody just put some_file.php?1-an-article-some-really-awesome-article and use a $_GET request?

Also, you might want to mention that this does NOT use the .htaccess file, as some buyers may be under the assumption it does.

By the way, if you ever get this working without the some_file.php? extension, please please message me, I’d love to purchase! (I’ve been looking at the mod_rewriter script by Sitebase, but it looks confusing :P)

EDIT :

Now I am super confused, this just looks like a $_GET script, as I said above, surely a $_GET[‘test’]; could achieve the exact same thing right?

Those two things are actually completely seperated, and not what I claimed to achieve (as is visible in the Live Preview).

“Removing the filename” is a routing concern that must always be handled at the web-server, there’s simply no way it can be done otherwise (even if certain aspects are handled at the script level, such as taking a raw path and routing it to a controller, there’s always atleast ONE initial URL rewrite done on the web server).

SEOUrl helps you create valid, descriptive and backwards-compatible URLs – not the same as just using $_GET[‘test’], that’d be silly.

Still, your documentation says:

yoursite.com/articles/1-Hello-world!-the-very-first-article.

Yet your live preview has a demo, which is:

http://fildob.com/SEOUrl/Preview/Preview.php?test = 123-Hello-world!

(URL broken up due to codecanyon)

So why is there not .PHP (I.E articles.php) on the above example?

I presume, using this script, that you can have a url such as:

yoursite.com/users/1-Joe-Bloggs

If so, how? (I.E what would my file be called (users.php?), what would the code be?

Sorry for bugging you, just wanted to get to the bottom of my issue XD

Like I said above, this is something that requires URL rewriting to work. In a normal page request, you’re sending your request to PHP script, so it can look like this:

www.yoursite.com/script.php

If you were to remove the actual filename (script.php), your web server is left with no way to figure out what exactly the user wants from the server – that’s where mod_rewrite comes in – it basically says “hey, if the user asks for this, point him that way”.

So, if you go to the www.yoursite.com/articles/10 , your webserver is actually sending you to www.yoursite.com/script.php?article=10, internally.

Read the links I posted above, which explain this in greater detail.

That’s not what I am asking you, read my post again please.

I am asking, why does your docs say that URL is possible (read my above post again).

Okay, let me put it better (if you didn’t understand):

yoursite.com/articles/1-Hello-world!-the-very-first-article.

Your documentation says that line (I copied and pasted it).

How could I recreate that URL , because there is no .PHP file there (unless you’re using index.php of the articles directory).

Also, I’ve read through your ENTIRE documentation, and NOT ONCE does it mention any .PHP file, at all. (which is why I presumed it used mod_rewrite)

So using your logic, this doesn’t work. (“because the server is left no way of knowing where to go”)