Can I generate multiple URLs from one .php page with multiple URL variables?

zander213

I have a search page (in my drupal powered website) that uses URL variables to sort data and populate the title. How can I turn my url from this:

"http://mysite.com/mysearch?Foo1=Bar1&Foo2=Bar2&Foo3=Bar3"
with Title = "Bar1 Bar2 TEXT Bar3"

to this:

"http://mysite.com/Bar1/Bar2/TEXT/Bar3" ?

Is this possible? Do I need a mod-re-write or something? (Drupal has a Pathauto module that does some mod re-write stuff - anyone know about this?)

Thanks!

bpat1434

Pathauto is not what you want.... but on a quick visit to the drupal site (so it is in their documentation) I found this:

Readable URLs

Clean URLs
By default, Drupal passes path arguments to itself via its internally generated URLs. This results in URLs that look like the following: "http://www.example.com/?q=node/83." Notice the rather unsightly "?q=". Besides being unaesthetic and hard to read, it also stops many search engines from indexing the pages with these urls.

You can tell Drupal to use "clean URLs", eliminating the "?q=" in internal URLs. Note that this works only for Apache servers which have mod_rewrite installed.

You can find that in administer >> settings in the General settings area.

All pulled from the manual....

~Brett

zander213

Hi Brent,

I appreciate your feedback. I am well aware of the Clean URLs feature (and have been using it)... what i'm trying to do here is take the whole thing a step further. Clean URLs just eliminates the "?q=" in the URL, but what I need is to do that for several variables.

So instead of just "?q=" becoming a slash, I would need "&Foo1=" "&Foo2=" and "&Foo3=" to all become slashes... will this require some custom mod re-write work?

Thanks again!

bpat1434

yes, it will require mod_rewrite work. Most software like drupal should make the entire URL clean, don't know why it didn't. Try using the pathauto aliasing utility.

~Brett