Well, first off as the local organizer for the NYC Joomla User Group,
I'd point you over to the Joomla mailling list also sponsored and
maintained by NYPHP(you can subscribe to it from their site).
As to your question, SEF in the Joomla world works in 1 of 2 ways:
1) The ugly way. Using native Joomla SEF, all it does is convert
keywords to the url, so
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?options=content&task=view&id=5 becomees
http://www.mysite.com/options/content/task/view/id/5
2) The "smart" way = you use a 3rd party Joomla component that can
create pretty urls.
These components typically have a default way of doing things. They also
are extendable for each component, a component author or consultant
working on the project can create a specific file(for example, if your
component is called books, the file would be sef_books.php) and that
file implements a class with 2 functions. One function takes a Joomla
url and prettifies it, and the other takes a pretty url and Joomlafies
it. They generally do this is a very simple way, they are called with
the url, and return an array to prettify it. The SEF component than
pops the array and builds the url.
For example:
books
showbook
php_hacks
Would become: http://www.mydomain.com/books/showbook/php_hacks.html
This means as a /user/ your at the mercy of what configuration options
were created by the author of the sef class for the components your
using used.
As a developer, you are free to edit that very very small file and
completely rearrange the ordering to suit your fancy.
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