decaff - 7:27 pm on Oct 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

thanks trimmer80:

"why do people post nonsense like this?
Why do people post useless posts like this? No help to anyone!"

My apologies to the original poster...(had a bad moment there...with just a residual twinge of my original response)

always work to make your php strings user friendly and make sure your?id= string has no more then 2 variables...
you should be okay for indexing...but the more descriptive the better...

If you format it this way:
?category= or?productid= etc.....
you will have a more descriptive url string..

Both Unix and IIS servers offers ways to achieve this...

The issue with this has always been that if a spider comes along and sees a question mark in a url string and then a series of equal signs...the bot sees this as a database reference (which it is) and if the bot wiggles its way into your database...it may not be able to find its way out...and you do not want a bot caught in your database in some horrible death loop...can bring down not only your site but an entire server as resources are eaten up...