"Matthew Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, can someone give me the spot to look in the documentation to find
> out how to make this switch?
There are multiple solutions. In a nutshell here's what I do. I add
directives to the VirtualHost block for the site which point web requests
for certain pages to a master script that generates a number of pages with
similar database-driven content. Here's one such line. Any file beginning
with "photo_gallery_", followed by 1 or more digits and ending in .html is
handled by template_1.php.
AliasMatch ^/photo_gallery_[[:digit:]]{1,}.html$ template_1.php
For this particular site, template_1.php actually handles nearly all of the
web requests for the site. It consists of HTML code generating the basic
physical appearance of the site, then calls other scripts to generate the
HTML <head> section, breadcrumb trail, etc. and uses an include() statement
to load the appropriate PHP script that generates the bulk of the page's
content. In this case that script is inc_page_news.php.
In inc_page_news.php the following code extracts the page number:
ereg( '/news_([[:digit:]]{1,}).html', $SCRIPT_NAME, $regs );
if ( ! empty( $regs[1] ) )
{
// Set page number.
$page = $regs[1];
}
Then a database query is performed to extract and build the page content. I
wrote about the topic a while back on this list. If you're interested see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=98618455619989&w=2
A few months ago I wrote a script that controls ~40 product pages on each of
about 35 sites using PHP/MySQL and Apache mod_rewrite. Prior to that the
pages were static and changes were done manually which was an extremely long
process for those involved (imagine changing layouts and fonts on 1,000+
static pages with no CSS). Now changes can be made across all sites,
products or combinations thereof in seconds. Sites, products, images, meta
tags, image tags, etc. are now entirely administered through a web interface
I built. Using AliasMatch in Apache as I described above all product pages
are handled by a single PHP script which parses the URL for the site name
and product name and pulls data from a number of tables and handles a few
special cases programmatically, then generates the page. Here are a couple
of the URLs. You'll notice they aren't the prettiest of pages, but the goal
was to drive traffic to the sites from search engines, convert a high % of
visitors to sales and allow the site to be administered by a non-programmer
and implement changes rapidly.
http://www.3rackbids.com/products/pallet_rack.html
http://www.3-materialhandlingequipment-bids.com/products/pallet_rack.html
If you want to browse a couple of my side projects you'll see I implement
the same practices there too.
http://www.sexcriminals.com/ (not an adult content site)
http://www.tysonchandler.com/
HTH,
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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/
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