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 {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