缩短包含查询字符串的URL

Question

I'm using Codeigniter(PHP Framework) and I have URLs like http://www.mysite.com/age/21/gender/female/name/jamie/city/boston/userid/1234.

Is it possible to make the URL more SEO/user friendly? Like http://www.mysite.com/1234-Jamie-Boston and somehow still be able to pass the values found in the original URL strings like age =>21 and gender => female?

Answer 1

I think you could - use mod_rewrite to rewrite your new url from http://www.mysite.com/1234-Jamie-Boston to http://www.mysite.com/user/1234. In your user controller load from the db the one with id 1234 and set all his other properties

Or without the mod_rewrite - you could modify your application/config/routes.php file with an entry like:

$route['(\d+)-.*'] = "users/display_user/$1";

This way your SEO friendly urls will point to class Users, method display_users and you will get the id as parameter