On Apr 15, 2011, at 08:57, AD7six wrote: > 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.
$_GET['url']? That's new to me. Is that something CakePHP does? Is there documentation on it? Even if it does what I think it does, then your suggestion would only address the first part (making URLs work case-insensitively) and would not address the second part (ensuring there is a single canonical URL for each resource and redirecting non-canonical ones to the canonical one). -- 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
