[UPHPU] Passing more than one $_GET variable

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Lonnie Olson wrote:
> Alvaro Carrasco wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I disagree.  Try telling someone in-person, or over the phone the URL
>
> An exaggerated example that is in no way fair...
>
>   http://www.example.com/index.php?action=viewPage&page=products
>
> "The website is h, t, t, p, colon, slash, slash, w, w, w, dot, 
> example, dot, com, slash, index, dot, p, h, p, question mark, action, 
> equals sign, view, capital p, a, g, e, ampersand (hold shift and push 
> 7), page, equals sign, products"
>   or almost as bad
> "The website is h, t, t, p, colon, slash, slash, w, w, w, dot, 
> example, dot, com.  Then click on the blue menu across the top that 
> says Products"
>
>   VS
>
>   http://example.com/products
>
> "The website is example, dot, com, slash, products"
>
> This is the most obvious benefit of clean URLs, but there are other 
> examples, such as: printing a URL on a printed ad, shorter URLs (no 
> need for tinyurl.com), etc.  Lots of non-developer humans would like 
> clean URLs.
>
> Now for the discussion about Google.  Google *will* index links with 
> GET parameters.  However, using clear keywords in the URL itself will 
> make your site rank more highly than the keywords only appearing in 
> the GET params, or worse, not in the URL at all.
>
> --lonnie
>
> P.S. I know my examples were partially cheating due to the inclusion 
> of http://www.  It is a small pet peeve of mine.  http:// should be 
> obvious and should never be repeated over the phone or in person if 
> the other party understands web site.  And www. should be deprecated.  
> Your website should either return the same pages when the root domain 
> is accessed, or at least redirect to the www.example.com.
>
>
>
That's a good point about the phone. Although I don't think I have ever 
had to tell somebody a complete url over the phone, it usually goes 
like: go to examples.com and click on products, or I just send them an 
email or write a url on a piece of paper. So, I would assume that 
spelling out a url over the phone does not happen very often.

Alvaro