URL rewriting to include title text

You pass the "id" bit to find the article right? This id therefore is UNIQUE to the article. No other article will have that id...and rightly so!

One solution you could use is to drop the use of the id, and use the title as the unique identifier. This is more risky for security purposes (URL hacking etc) but with the right sort of validation on the string there'd be no reason you couldn't do this. One thing to note however, you'd then not be able to have two articles named the same thing. So, on creation of a new article, you'd have to check if one is already named that in the database.

OR, you could just carry on the same way but append the title to the end. It wont be used to retrieve the article, and may not be required, but they are extra words a search engine could pick up on. e.g:

http://www.mymagazine.co.uk/view.cfm?id=256&issue=170&title=my_article_title_here

Good luck!
Mikey.