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ojsimon

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#1

How to Use SEO URLS for Simple GET Form

Oct 5 '08, 03:29 PM

Hi
I am trying to make a simple get form that asks the user to enter their name and then it returns their name on the next page, i have managed to do this but now i would like to have nice clean SEO Urls insted of the ugly get urls. How do i make do this?

I am currently doing:
Index.php

Code:

<html> <form action="welcome.php" method="get"> Name: <input type="text" name="name" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </html>

and

welcome.php

Code:

<html> Welcome <?php echo $_GET["name"]; ?>.<br /> </html>

So my question is how to make this have clean urls such as domain.com/'search-phrase'?

Thanks
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bnashenas1984

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#2

Oct 5 '08, 03:50 PM

Hi
Why don't you use POST instead of GET to hide your variables?
Then there will be nothing shown in the URL
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pbmods

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#3

Oct 5 '08, 05:14 PM

Heya, ojsimon.

Look into using mod_rewrite to do this.
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Markus

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#4

Oct 5 '08, 06:08 PM

Hey there.

Check out this tutorial on 'pretty urls'.

Markus.
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ojsimon

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#5

Oct 6 '08, 04:23 PM

yeh i know about mod rewrite but i am struggling to implement it into my situation. Can anyone help me?

Thanks
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pbmods

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#6

Oct 6 '08, 11:05 PM

I'll go ahead and move this to the Apache forum to see if we can get some more Experts in on this.
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ojsimon

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#7

Oct 7 '08, 06:21 AM

thanks for that mod, sorry i didnt realise there was one.
Anyone able to help?

Thanks
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