[UPHPU] Passing more than one $_GET variable

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Lonnie Olson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 13:47 -0600, Rusty Keele wrote:
>   
>> So,
>>             At Sheri's presentation last week she mentioned that Google
>> doesn't do very well with links that pass more than one variable.  For
>> example: website.com?val1=98&val2=13  I have also found that when I try
>> to validate any XHTML code where I have links like this I always get an
>> error.  Can somebody explain this to me?  Is there some XHTML standard
>> that prohibits using more than one $_GET variable, or is it just good
>> coding practice to avoid multi-variable link references?
>>     
>
> In my opinion $_GET variables should only be used when the value is
> truly variable.  Examples of it's use could be search queries.
>
> I am a big fan of what are called "clean URLs", or URLs without the ?=&
> gobbledygook.  What looks better to you?
>
>   http://www.example.com/index.php?action=viewPage&page=productPage
> or
>   http://example.com/products
>
>   
...
I'm not against pretty urls, I have done them before because *I* think 
they're cool and they go well with the concepts of REST, but I would 
argue that right about 0% of non-developer humans actually care what 
urls look like. It's more of a cool thing for developers to do, than the 
usability booster people make it out to be.

Alvaro