I want to start using pretty permalinks on my website. Can anybody help me out with a basic list of what needs to be done in order to achieve this.

I currently have everything routed my index.php page.

Any help would be appreciated.

Are you using any cms? or custom code?

If wordpress, by default WP has the feature.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wordpress+permalink
http://wphacks.com/how-to-setting-up...ink-structure/

Hope that helps.

It will be custom code,

Im thinking about having a table of all available pages, but not sure how to handle the requests from the url and get it into the correct permalink.

Use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to determine how to process the request. For example if the url the user visits is:

http://yoursite.com/some-page

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] will be:

/some-page

If you provide me with a permalink structure I can provide a more detailed example.


By the way this is pretty much what Wordpress does. Taking a look through wordpress' code may help out.

Yeah, ive tried but the wordpress code is massive.

Permalink structure would be something like /category/page-name/page-number.

For example: /news/sport/1

PHP Code:

print_r( explode('/', '/category/page-name/page-number') ); 


yields:

Array
(
    [0] => 
    [1] => category
    [2] => page-name
    [3] => page-number
)

PHP Code:

$parts = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

$category = $parts[1];
$page_name = $parts[2];
$page_number = isset($parts[3]) ? $parts[3] : 1; 


Thanks for help.