All, I am tackling the subject of Search Engine safe urls for a content management system. First I will explain the main problem, then address 2 solutions, then ask for everyone's opinion. Here is the problem. A customer wants more information from a reporting system but the problem is I have a url like this.
http://www.mycompany.com/show.cfm?p=11&pp=1 This is saying give me the page that has a page id of 11 under the category of 1. When a customer see's that url in the reports it doesnt really mean anything to them. They want to know that "aboutus" is the page getting viewed the most. So how do we solve this problem. Well I think there are two solutions. I am using IIS 1.) ISAPI Rewrite for IIS >From what I understand this is a quick and powerful solution but I think i am still going to have problems here. I think this solution is still going to give me problems. I have never used this solution so please correct me if im wrong. We are still going to end up with a url like the one below which I am pretty sure will show up in the reporting tool and still not matter to our customer. http://www.mycompany.com/show/p/11/pp/1/ 2.) Parse url params. I was reading a link http://www.cftopper.com/index.cfm?page=blog&blogId=1&blogpostid=16 about parsing out the url. So instead of having http://www.mycompany.com/show.cfm?p=11&pp=1 I could do http://www.mycompany.com/show/category/about/page/contact Parse out the information in the url and then show the appropriate content to the user. This seems to me like a much better solution but a lot more work. If I start building a new cms from the ground up this seems like the appropriate road to go down. I am just not sure what I should do right now quick vs customizable. Please share your thoughts as I would love to hear from people that have already tackled this problem. -- Thank You Dan Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danvega.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266313 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
