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In a site I'm developing I have a page that presents a post based on the variable in the url: http://www.mywebsite.com?id=18 So this would load the post who's ID is 18 in the mySQL database.

I would like the create the same effect, but with the url being something like: http://www.mywebsite.com/articles/title-of-article-18/

Would there be a way to create these pages on the fly with dynamic post content, where the url would originally be created by: "http://www.mywebsite.com/articles/" + postTitle

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  • What is your underlying technology (platform/language, server, etc.)? Every environment has its own way of achieving this, so the answer is "yes", but you have to give more information to get specifics. Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 8:20

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You are looking for mod_rewrite and rewriting of urls via htaccess.

What it does is it takes patterns from your url, and the htaccess file detects the pattern redirects that to http://www.mywebsite.com?id=18. Users still see the nice url.

The directory /articles/title-of-article-18/ will not actually exist, and the user never really reaches that location because the htaccess secretly changes the url that the server processes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine

or a random tutorial I found: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/htaccess-mod_rewrite-ultimate-guide/

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try url-rewriting

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/asp.net/a-complete-url-rewriting-solution-for-asp.net-2.0/

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