Can someone help me out?

I wanna know how to create a template.php file to use. Basically have a directory called pages, with files containing content for individual pages. (Eg: /pages/about.php)

At the moment I use this tutorial

However, this makes the pages index.php?p=about

Instead, I would like simply www.mysite.com/about/ but need some help how to either alter the code in the above tutorial, or a completely different method.

Thanks,

Reply with any questions you might have, sorry if this isn't clear enough

Use htaccess for this. I'd tell you how, but not sure. You may want to post this in the coding forum or search on it as I'm pretty sure the question has been asked and answered before (use htaccess as the keyword -- that's why you didn't find it before).

You'll want to use RewriteRule for this (search ".htaccess RewriteRule" for more extensive documentation).

Essentially you'll want to throw something like this into you're .htaccess file (which you'll need to create if it doesn't already exist).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /([^/]+) /index.php?p=$1
</IfModule>

(note: this is untested. I wrote it from memory, but I'm 99.99% sure it will work).