Hi yall,

Yeah there's this stuff I see on "well designed" websites. Nobody really uses url parameters especially those using PHP. Now what do I mean

Let's take for instance this nice website www.nigeriaport.com.
you can check the post out [ https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-130806.0.html ]

You'll notice that the stories in the news section of the website are usually arranged in "folder like" url parameters i.e.

http://www.nigeriaport.com/story/2008/apr/thestoryfolder/

onlike the traditional;

http://www.nigeriaport.com/story/?year=2008&month=apr&story=thestoryfolder

can someone just explain how this effect is achieved or any resource on the web where explanations can be found.

Meanwhile kudos to www.nigeriaport.com It's professional. it kinda reminds me of www.cnn.com

Same thing I did on www.niglyrics.com

You use apache mod_rewrite.

Google it. There are lots of resources on it.

well you can check a solution from this post
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-126853.0.html

Yeah thanks guys, that will do. All I needed was the term (apache mod_rewrite). I'll do the rest of the work myself. Again, thanks. I hope this post helps other guys who have always wanted to know this.