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This tutorial shows how to setup SEO friendly URLs without using apache’s mod_rewrite.

Sometimes on large sites, mod_rewrite turns to be slow; hence overloads the server. So, here’s a tutorial to use SEO without mod_rewrite:

In the file which shows the content from the database, will have this code or a code similar to this.

Considering a URL: something.com/something.php?id=335

something.php will have this:

$article_id = $_GET[’id’];

$article=mysql_query(”SELECT article FROM articles WHERE ID=$article_id”);

print $article;

That’s just a simple code not for a use.

We want the URL something like this:

something.php/id/335

So for it, we modify the code in something.php to this:

$rq_dat=explode(”/”,$_SERVER[’PATH_INFO’);

now, the URL something.php/id/335

is broke in the script to

$rq_dat[’0′]=id

and

$rq_dat[’1′]=article id (335)

Now, we put this in the mysql_query()

mysql_query(”SELECT article FROM articles where ID=$rq_dat[’1′]”);

Isn’t it simple ?

The next problem is that we have the .php extension in something.php/id/335

To remove it, you have to setup a in the .htaccess file.

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

OR

ForceType application/x-php

OR

ForceType application/php5-script (php5 only)

Now rename something.php to something

It should work.

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