Cliff Hirsch wrote:
> The next big task is making sure that all of the url links are
rewritten properly and that. That can be fairly difficult if your
links aren't very centralized.
I see this as a big assumption on the part of many router/controllers.
If you are working in a framework, things will probably work. But all
it takes is one handwritten uri to muck things up. Most of the
routers/controllers I’ve seen expect or write something like
/param1/param2/param3, which assumes a certain order...and level of
knowledge.
It seems to me that a more robust method would be to have something
like /param1/value1/param2/value2/.../paramn/valuen
Wordier and exposes more about the application. But security by
obscurity doesn’t get you very far anyway.
It's also not pretty urls.
Here is an example:
http://test.com/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=show_category&catid=34&brandid=48
Now convert that in std format to:
http://nowhere.com/com_adsmanager/show_category/34/48
Or your proposal
http://nowhere.com/option/com_adsmanager/page/show_category/catid/34/brandid/48
Neither of these are "pretty" and their only real benefit is hiding
things form search engines to make the urls look unqiue.
http://nowhere.com/find/widgets/acme.html
That is what I feel is a pretty url.
Where find summaries the whole component & action
widgets is the category
acme is the brand
Now someone searching on google looking for "acme widgets" will see the
url http://nowhere.com/find/widgets.acme.html
Oh look, that is precisely what I'm looking for. I'll go there.
The thing is though, stuff like this can't be automated by some fire and
forget generic routing app, it requires some intelligence.
The parm./value or /value/value format is great to get you from nothing
to something, and as long as you have a way to customize the function
for your needs, that seems great to me.
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