Friendly URL's in Coldfusion

[rambo]

How could I change a typical parameterized URL in my application such as

http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?id=977

to the following friendly URL for example (or similar)

http://www.domain.com/index.cfm/news/sample-headline

Any ideas ?

[dempster]

In your example, the variable CGI.PATH_INFO would return the value "/index.cfm/news/sample-headline".

You can treat this as a list delimited by "/" or strip out the name of the script to get the variable information you need.

Is that what you mean?

[rambo]

Kind of.

Basically what I have now is when a page gets called from the database table the URL is in the form of

http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?id=977

Is it possible to turn (or mask) the url above into a Search engine friendly URL such as

http://www.domain.com/news/headline (if its a press release)

http://www.domain.com/vacancies/jobtitle (if its a job vacancy) etc...

perhaps based from the metadata?

How would the CGI.PATH_INFO return the value "/index.cfm/news/sample-headline".

[Newsgroup_User]

rambo wrote:
> Kind of.
>
> Basically what I have now is when a page gets called from the database table
> the URL is in the form of
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.cfm?id=977
>
> Is it possible to turn the url above into a Search engine friendly URL such as
>
> http://www.domain.com/news/headline (if its a press release)
>
> http://www.domain.com/vacancies/jobtitle (if its a job vacancy) etc...
>
> perhaps based from the metadata?
>
> How would the CGI.PATH_INFO return the value "/index.cfm/news/sample-headline".
>

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2005/8/2/Ask-a-Jedi-Working-with-SES-URLs-and-ColdFusion

--
Matt Woodward
mpwoodward@gmail.com
Adobe Community Expert - ColdFusion

[rambo]

Thanks for that

How would you use the code below in your site that would change the actual URL ?

<cfset pathInfo = reReplaceNoCase(trim(cgi.path_info), ".+\.cfm/? *", "")>

<cfoutput>
cgi.path_info=#cgi.path_info#<br>
stripped: #pathInfo#
</cfoutput>

E.G.

If my link was
http://www.domain.com/direct/execs/newsdetail.cfm?id=#id#"

How could the code be used to change the above to

http://www.domain.com/direct/execs/newsdetail.cfm/24/04/2006/news-headline

like the examples ray camden has on his site

i.e. http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/4/21/Advanced-ColdFusion-Contest-Winner

[Newsgroup_User]

rambo wrote:
> Thanks for that
>
> How would you use the code below in your site that would change the actual URL
> ?
>
> <cfset pathInfo = reReplaceNoCase(trim(cgi.path_info), ".+\.cfm/? *", "")>
>
> <cfoutput>
> cgi.path_info=#cgi.path_info#<br>
> stripped: #pathInfo#
> </cfoutput>
>
> E.G.
>
> If my link was
> http://www.domain.com/direct/execs/newsdetail.cfm?id=#id#"
>
> How could the code be used to change the above to
>
> http://www.domain.com/direct/execs/newsdetail.cfm/24/04/2006/news-headline
>
> like the examples ray camden has on his site
>
> i.e.
> http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/4/21/Advanced-ColdFusion-Contest-Winn
> er
>
>
>

I haven't had to mess with SES URLs myself, but there's some additional
information here:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/

Just scroll down a bit for the article "Search Engine Safe (SES) URLs"
by Michael Dinowitz.

Matt

--
Matt Woodward
mpwoodward@gmail.com
Adobe Community Expert - ColdFusion

[oilrush]

There is an interesting article here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/6079.htm