Better page URLs

[LilApe]

[Request Name]
Better page URLs

[Description]
It would be nice if the URLs could get a dummy-variable to indicate what kind of URL it is. Firefox has a great History feature, in that you can type "myepisodes lost" and it will automatically find any URL that has those words in it. This also makes plain URLs easier to read, because it gives information on where it goes to.

The variable would be a dummy, because the site itself will only need id numbers and stuff.

Example:
http://myepisodes.com/views.php?type=epsbyshow&showid=14&title=lost.html
http://myepisodes.com/views.php?type=epsbyshow&showid=44&title=scrubs.html
http://myepisodes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=614&title=better-page-titles.html

Notice the "title" variable with the show or topic, which ends in ".html" to make it look like a normal page.

An even better idea would be to use Apache's mod_rewrite, to get rid of all the unreadable garbage.

Example:
http://myepisodes.com/epsbyshow/14/lost.html
http://myepisodes.com/epsbyshow/44/scrubs.html
http://myepisodes.com/forum/topic/614/better-page-titles.html

Now browsers will even save the page to "lost.html" and the like. You could reduce clutter even more by getting rid of the id numbers altogether, but that would require extra work, programming an automatic lookup-table.

[Target URL]
Whole site

[Comments]
Great site!

[the_man_stephen]

i think this is a great idea, and shouldn't be too hard to implement!

[Sypher]

If they fix your other suggestion, there is no need to fix the url's as well. Firefox also searches in the titles

[LilApe]

Yeah, I guess that's true. But the readability and knowing-where-it-links-to are also very nice features. It's also relatively easy to implement. Probably easier than figuring out how to change title generation of phpBB.

[the_man_stephen]

you could have a rewrite rule like

[IceMan]

On the update list for next update.

[LilApe]

Great! Looking forward to it.