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Pretty Smarties 0.5 - Pretty URLs, Smarty Templates and Faster Web Design

Posted June 7, 2009

Pretty Smarties

Pretty Smarties

This is the simple PHP template system which integrates Pretty URLs and Smarty Templates. The release is only two months later than I said, but I’ve made the release fairly decent. Here’s a rundown on the system: (more…)

Clean URLs Using Apache’s mod_rewrite and PHP - Beginner’s Tutorial

Posted February 10, 2008

In technology, there’s always the goal of making complex and difficult things more simple - this goal has brought about ‘clean URLs’. Clean URLs are website addresses that are easy for people (and also search engines) to read and understand. For example: An interesting article about the Bermuda Triangle might be at www.articles.com/article.php?id=23452 - That address tells us (and search engines) nothing about the article. Using a clean URL, the same article might be at www.articles.com/articles/bermuda-triangle - much easier, right? Well, here is how you can implement this on your website… (more…)

Filed under: PHP, SEO, Web Design — Tags: , , , , , , — Tim @ 3:39 pm

Extract GET Variables from URL String to Array - PHP Function

Posted December 22, 2007

While making the YouTube Music in MySpace tool, I coudln’t find a function that reads an input URL then makes an array with the GET variable names and values. I needed this to get the video id from the YouTube video URL - so I made it, and now I’m sharing it. (more…)

Filed under: PHP — Tags: , , , , , , , — Tim @ 1:25 am