RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Aaron Wolski
> -Original Message- > From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Do a search for "search engine friendly URLs" or somethig along those > lines to see how to fix this. Using frames is not a very elegant solution. > I'm not sure how/if search engines will index your pages if you hav

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Egan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned] > > > > I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there > was some way of doing this in php which might look more > elegant. Seeing > urls such as > www.mydomain.com/index.php?artic

Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread John W. Holmes
From: "Michael Egan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too > thought there was some way of doing this in php > which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such > as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2&id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 > looks fairly cumb

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Aaron Wolski
> On seeing that the only way of doing this was to use frames I decided that > the costs of doing this probably outweighed what is in effect a purely > cosmetic issue. Never ever underestimate the "cosmetic" factor when you are talking about Usability and search engines. For example, if you are d

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Matt Matijevich
I agree with you but when I first looked at this I too thought there was some way of doing this in php which might look more elegant. Seeing urls such as www.mydomain.com/index.php?article_id=2&id=e5t28er647ryh362hy67eh4563yh4635 looks fairly cumbersome and I'm sure I've seen something about probl

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Egan
-Original Message- > From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 March 2004 14:59 > To: Will; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}[Scanned] > > > From: "Will" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanks everyone! :)

Re: [PHP] Hinding URL{ot}

2004-03-31 Thread John W. Holmes
From: "Will" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks everyone! :) I was not sure what it was called. > > Thanks again, > ~WILL~ > PS: Sorry I thought you could do something in PHP. Don't think for a second that you're actually hiding anything here. The only people you'll "fool" are newbies browsing the web

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Will
Thanks everyone! :) I was not sure what it was called. Thanks again, ~WILL~ PS: Sorry I thought you could do something in PHP. -Original Message- From: Michael Egan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:43 AM To: Will; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Hinding

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Hawkes, Richard
So we're all agreed on Frames then?! -Original Message- From: Michael Egan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 March 2004 14:43 To: Will; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Hinding URL[Scanned] Will, I had a look at this a while ago though never pursued it. If you do a sear

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL {OT}

2004-03-31 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] When someone brings up a page in the browser, is there a way to hide the URL in the browser bar to a set URL?? Example: I want them to see this URL in the browser: http://domain.com/test.htm But, I want them to see the url of http://domain.com in the browser bar. Is this possible?? I hope s

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL[Scanned]

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Egan
Will, I had a look at this a while ago though never pursued it. If you do a search on google for url cloaking this should give you some pointers. I think the only way of doing it is to set up an empty frame and load all pages within that frame. This will hide more complex urls but with all the

Re: [PHP] Hinding URL

2004-03-31 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 14:38, Will wrote: > Hello all, > > I am hoping someone can help me. > > When someone brings up a page in the browser, is there a way to hide the > URL in the browser bar to a set URL?? Why should a remote server have control over what a local client can display? The cl

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL

2004-03-31 Thread Hawkes, Richard
You could use HTML Frames, ensuring 'index.html' was your main frame. Not much PHP required though! -Original Message- From: Will [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 March 2004 14:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Hinding URL Hello all, I am hoping someone can help me. When someon

RE: [PHP] Hinding URL

2004-03-31 Thread James Nunnerley
Will, This isn't really a PHP thing... you can do it a number of ways... probably the best is to use frames. If you only have one then just create a single frameset with one frame in it Have a look at a HTML help site... Nunners > -Original Message- > From: Will [mailto:[EMAIL PROT