Forward slashes instead of x.php?x=x

[skeen]

Hello;

I have noticed that alot of website coded using PHP user forward slashes instead of the standard: x.php?x=xx -- how can I go about doing this?

Im kind of a newbie so excuse me if this has such an easy solution to it.

Thank you.

[dalecosp]

Tim Perdue (who built this site, originally <?>) wrote a good article about this some time ago that was very popular. Go to the main portion of the site and do a little looking around.

IIRC, it has to do with a "ForceType" redirect (enabled by a certain Apache module<?> or maybe it's just a native directive) that causes all http requests to be routed to a PHP script; the PHP script parses the query string (URL, actually, since it's slashes...) and turns the path entries into variables to determine content.

Interesting. A good search term might be "search-engine friendly."

HTH,