Smarty

[mbouclas]

Smarty at its best.Tech-salon is a technology news site which is based on smarty. The entire front-end is in HTML so that it is search engine friendly, and it is essentially the output of the smarty templates. All the data gathered from the database are passed to the smarty templates and then they are saved as .html files on the disk. Let me know what you guys think of it.

[philjohn]

Or, failing that, what I do for hosts that don't support it:

Parse the uri line, so you get

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/fuseaction/shop.addToCart/productid/53.html

then simply remove the http://www.yoursite.com/, remove the .html and then explode the /'s leaving you with your keys/values which can then be put into proper vars with the variable variable ($$varname).

Just a thought, nice site though.

[mbouclas]

I'm aware of the apache mod rewrite but i wanted the entire site to be static. Several reasons lead me to that decision, the main ones were: search engines seem to treat html better, easier url's for the users to remember, if anything happens to the mysql database there will always something online for the users to see and many more.

[philjohn]

I've managed to find ways around most of thos problems (using ADOdb to dynamically cache database queries etc). I was really pleased when a client who uses my companies e-commerce software had their entire (dynamic) site hoovered up by google...all done via php, no mod_rewrite in sight! ;o)

But yeah, I see what you mean with easy to remember url's, that's something that many web developers forget these days/