Is this a search-engine friendly URL?

[beavis]

I've read much about content management systems and the potential to produce "unfriendly" URL's that search engines don't like. The CMS I prefer produces URL's such as:

http://www.example.com/blahblah/index.php/this/that/

Is this considered friendly? I am not familiar with this exact format.. more used to URL's that end in .php or .htm

Thanks!

[MichaelBluejay]

Yes, that's very search engine-friendly.

The only time SE's might have a problem is with dynamic url's, that contain a question mark. But usually, they have no problem with those, either.

Some people think that having words in the url helps your rankings. The theory is that:

http://example.com/forum/css-formatting-question

is better than

http://example.com/forum/thread.php?article=13238

I'll let others debate whether that really matters.