php blog permalink

[larry_22]

Hi, I have already written my own blogging system, but want to make a newer and better one, but I want to add permalinks into the design. How do they work? and are their any simple example on how they work? at the moment my blog refrences id's in a database.... so http://site.com/blog?id=34 for example. But I would like to have as site.com/blog/2007/title. Probably asking alot to help me design a whole blogging system, but anyhelp would be appreciated.

[bradgrafelman]

If you're using Apache and have mod_rewirte enabled, it's rather simple... you'd have a .htaccess file like so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/2007/(.+)$ /blog?title=$1

Then, your 'blog' script would be able to retrieve the blog article based on the blog's title.

Note that this means you'd have to make the blog titles URL-friendly, perhaps storing this value in a separate column in your SQL table.