On Apr 15, 9:25 am, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 14:49, stas kim wrote: > > > This might help > > >http://www.pseudocoder.com/Super_Awesome_Advanced_CakePHP_Tips.pdf > > > search 'Case Insensitive' > > I haven't read the rest of that document, but the Case Insensitive section is > certainly inaccurate. Its first sentence "Generally Internet URLs are case > insensitive" is false. As I explained previously in this thread, URLs are > generally case-sensitive. The example given in the document (the CakePHP > Wikipedia page) only works because someone has gone an installed a redirect > page that redirects the all-lowercase version to the correctly-cased version. > You can easily demonstrate the case-sensitivity of Wikipedia URLs by trying > to access some other case permutation of the URL, such > ashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAKEphp > > Furthermore, the advice given on how to make CakePHP case-insensitive is > poor, because it allows multiple URLs (i.e. all case variations) to appear to > be authoritative for a resource. For SEO reasons, and for reasons of general > sanity, you want only one single URL (e.g. the lowercase one) to be the > canonical URL of a resource. So a better solution would be one that occurs > before CakePHP's routes (e.g. something in the web server, e.g. mod_rewrite > if you're using Apache) and sends all non-canonical versions of a URL to the > canonical URL using a 301 Moved Permanent redirect, as already discussed > previously in this thread.
$_GET['url'] = strtolower($_GET['url']); anywhere (e.g., line 1 of your index.php) will do the deed - and if you put a canonical meta tag in your page, you avoid any duplicate content problems too. AD. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
