can anybody help

hobsdv

i want to change the appearance of my urls from looking
like this
http://www.hobsonschoiceebooks.org/product.php?products_id=257

to something like this
http://www.hobsonschoiceebooks.org/product.php?articlecash

but i have nor got a clue how to go about it

halojoy

just change your links

for example write

<a href="http://www.hobsonschoiceebooks.org/product.php?articlecash">Click for Aritcle Cash</a>

hobsdv

thats not what i mean

i want the url to appear in the address bar when people are browsing my website

in other words s/e friendly urls

cgraz

I think what you're looking for is mod rewrite. Can be done using .htaccess files. Do a search on google and you'll find plenty on it. I think it may even have it's own forum somewhere.

One suggestion: if you're making SE friendly urls, drop the ? all together.

For example:
http://www.yourdomain.com/products.php?id=45

http://www.yourdomain.com/tennis-rackets/wilson/nPro-serve

If you just change to
http://www.yourdomain.com/products.php?nPro-serve

your url still appears dynamic to search engines because of the ?, which defeats the whole purpose of SE friendly urls. You don't have to go as far as my example, but for sure drop the ?