On 6/14/07, Brandon Stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Up front, let me say, I'm not arguing against URL rewriting for what many call clean URLs, and others call friendly... btw, are they clean, or are they friendly? I'm just curious what makes them popular. Now my comments:
clean URL's: drupal (core) has the ability to remove the query from the url (?q=). it does require a bit of mod_rewrite, but the processor hit is negligible. i call these ones clean URL's because that's what the checkbox in the drupal control panel calls them... and it's literally that easy :) now if you decide to go with friendly url's, you can manually set a URL alias for each post, or you can use the pathauto module to do 'em for you. i tend to use a combination of the two. sometimes algorithms aren't quite as smart. using drupal url rewriting isn't a performance hit at all. it's already checking every query (/node/123) against the database to see if it's an alias or not. so the difference between each of these:
http://flfn.org/?q=node/14 vs http://flfn.org/node/14 vs http://flfn.org/blog/spelling_check_her
is effectively zero. all SEO/geek points/performance arguments aside, i personally do it for the humans. a link in a history, or an email, or an IM makes sense if it has actual words in it. a well designed link is easier to remember... http://justinhileman.info/node/116 isn't nearly as handy as http://justinhileman.info/tag the main reason i made the comment was because your original link told me nothing more than if it said "click here" justin -- http://justinhileman.info _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
