David Blomstrom wrote:
I want to create a content management system that produces user/search engine-friendly URL's like these: www.geozoo.org/stacks/Carnivora/ www.geozoo.org/kids/Carnivora/ www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canidae/ www.geozoo.org/kids/Canidae/ www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus/ www.geozoo.org/kids/Canis_lupus/ As you can see, there will be two versions of each article, one for adults, the other for kids. I think this is done with Apache's mod_rewritefunction, right?
mod_rewrite can do a good job of translating urls like the above into something like this:
www.geozoo.com/?Audience=kids&Subject=Carnivora etc. which most any CMS can go to town with. . . .
One other question: I read somewhere that you can actually produce several URL's for one article. For example, an article about the wolf might be accessed at any of the following: www.geozoo.org/stacks/wolf/ www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus/ www.geozoo.org/stacks/top_predator/ I think I read about this on Plone's website, but Plone is way over my head. Is this something you can do with mod_rewrite or some other technology that isn't restricted to a particular CMS? Can it be done with a database? (I'll have the wolf listed under wolf, Canis_lupus, top predator, etc.)
mod_rewrite uses regular expressions. You'd only need a few to do the basic job. But if you want to do rewrites based on particular subjects, the list of rewrite rules would get way longer and maintenance (of regular expressions) would be a bear.
Assuming you have a pretty long assortment of critters, you'd do better to do this with your CMS using a database. This probably involves using an extra table: a Subject table that points to an Article table, for example, so you can have multiple subjects pointing to the same article.
Hope that helps. John Hicks
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