RE: [phplib] Site Linking From: Brian Popp (bpopp <email protected>)
Date: 06/25/01

I guess I can see that, but the cost seems too great. Without doing a ton of
work, your logging (assuming you do any), will be virtually worthless.
Worse, anytime you want to reference a page, you would have to lookup it's
corresponding index in the database. If I want to send someone to the links
section of my website, I would have to remember that links=go.php?id=3. Ack!

>>Really, this kind of stuff is better handeled with a good set of
>>ErrorDocument scripts and some forethought into the layout of your site.

Amen to that!

bpopp - bpopp.net

-----Original Message-----
From: nathan r. hruby [mailto:nathan <email protected>]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:47 AM
To: Brian Popp
Cc: 'Michael'; Phplib (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [phplib] Site Linking

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Brian Popp wrote:

> This is just my opinion, but that sounds like a maintenance nightmare. I
> wouldn't wish such a thing on my worst enemy. I guess if you used some
> randomly generated hash as your index it could be used to conceal the
> location of your pages, but with a sequential index, what do you gain?
>

The ability to move local pages around in the filesystem at any time and
to / from any location without having to worry about dead links. I don't
think concelment is the desired effect here (maybe I'm wrong? If so then I
concur with Brian).

Really, this kind of stuff is better handeled with a good set of
ErrorDocument scripts and some forethought into the layout of your site.

-n 

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