url format and its meaning

[gmdata]

Hi,

I came upon the following link and was surprised by the url format (the part in red) -
http://www.calgaryinfocenter.com/merchant2.php/list2/232/Banff+Lodging+Company

I would have expected a URL to point to a specific page like http://www.calgaryinfocenter.com/merchant2.php

Or, for some parameters to be passed to a URL (appended to a URL with a ?) as -
http://www.calgaryinfocenter.com/merchant2.php?name=gmdata

Can someone give me any pointers on when a URL is used with an appendix like in red above and how it is processed?

Thanks a lot.
gmdata

 

[VPmase]

I believe its an .htaccess mod called "Rewrite".

More info: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

 

[ASPX.King]

apache rewrite, yes. you can also do something like /products/catagory/productname/page instead of /products.php?cat=catagory&id=productname&page=page

makes it a lot cleaner. look at the url for this forum, you'll see /programming-help/65791-url-format-its-meaning.html but in reality it's probably /index.php and some query string.

 

[gmdata]

Thanks VPmase and ASPX.King. This has helped me.
Edit:
Closed.

Where is the closed check box. I just cant seem to locate it.

 

[LHVWB]

Thanks VPmase and ASPX.King. This has helped me.
Edit:
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Where is the closed check box. I just cant seem to locate it.

This is currently being worked on (see the link below), for now I will close this thread.
http://forums.x10hosting.com/progra...e-close-your-answered-threads.html#post374798

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