On 12 May 2010 07:10, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:48 +0530, chetan rane wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> mod rewrite was actually inrduced to have search engne frendly urls. >>> hnce if you want a seo site then you have to use options 1 & 2. using >>> smarty or any templating engine for readibility is not total true. >>> one of the major advantages of using template engines is caching >>> > > I've read some {disparaging?) comments on "option 2", but I've > got a question, or point, about that. I'm not at all sure that > you have to use "mod_rewrite" at all, can't you just use a > FORCETYPE directive on your handler script(s)? > > I've certainly got some work in the form: > > somesite.com/scriptname/var1/var2/var3 > > that seems to work well with no use of the rewrite module. > And why wouldn't you want to use mod_rewrite? It's an extremely powerful tool that does the job really well. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fake51 BeWelcome: Fake51 Couchsurfing: Fake51 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php