A question about URL preference

[obediah]

Calis must have read an MVC book?

With his schema, I'd definitely use rewrite to prettyify the standard args so something like

codex.com/station/general/index.php?custom=junk

same info, but looks better.

Other than that the only issue I can think of is that search engines stop at ? so if that matters use rewrite there too.

I'd probably pick Calis's style but with the fake directories for mandatory arguments.

 

[Calis]

I don't know what an MVC book is, but I googled it, and yeah, separation between data model and interface is nice.
I just looked at my own code with eyes that are a couple of years older than when I wrote the current stuff and realized: "this is crap. I want to make something that other programmers can read without ridiculing me. Might as well get DarkUnderlord in on it, too."

The thing is with those URLs, we want to make something that runs on pretty much any webserver with PHP and some kind of database (we're only gonna include a MySQL module at first, of course). Right now I'm leaning towards: "build a class or function that handles link building. Depending on what's installed on the webserver (Apache rewriterules, for instance) have it behave differently."