NYCPHP Meetup

[ophir prusak]

I gave a talk about this at the NYPHP meeting back in May 2002 :)
I can't find the slides :( but I did find these two list entries which 
might help:

http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/2002-May/000119.html
http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/2002-September/000947.html

To make a long story short -  learn regular expressions (they really 
aren't that hard) and use mod_rewrite.
Most decent hosting providers support it. If you're not sure if yours 
does - do a phpinfo(); and u can get a list of all the apache modules 
they support.

If nothing else, mod rewrite lets you change your site structure and not 
have to worry bout old dead links :)

Ophir

inforequest wrote:

> There's tons of misinformation out there about this. As a 
> technologist, your best bet (my best advice) is learn about apache and 
> mod rewrite, and learn about search engines and how they work. Then, 
> and only then, if mod rewrite looks like a solid solution to your 
> needs, then put it to use.
>
> The script kiddie approach is not suitable for search engine work, but 
> the web is full of script-kiddie solutions and articles. Most of it is 
> garbage IMHO.
>
> I think I am scheduled for the January NYPHP meeting on this very 
> topic....
>
> -=john andrews
>
> PS: search engines already index pages with query strings. Do a search 
> for any junk and you'll see it..
> like 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22.php%26site%3D%22&btnG=Search 
>
>
>
>
>
> Joseph Crawford codebowl-at-gmail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| 
> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> i know this isnt directed fully towards php but i have been developing
>> sites for some time now and one of the parts i lack is the knowledge
>> about search engines and spidering.
>>
>> Lately i have read a bit about the NYPHP site and something about
>> search engine spidering.  I understand the basics such as basic meta
>> tags but what i need to know is if there is an easy way without use
>> apache's mod_rewrite to make a search engine index pages that have
>> querystrings such as
>>
>> product.php?id=57
>> where each id shows a dynamic page filled with information about
>> different products.
>>
>> now one would think that when it spiders your products.php page and it
>> shows links to products it would follow them and then index the
>> results as if it was an html document, however i have been told that
>> pages like that are not indexed.
>>
>> If anyone can direct me to any books/online reading etc.. i would 
>> appreciate it.
>>  
>>
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