Implementing routing

Routing refers to the process of accepting user-friendly URLs, dissecting the URL into its component parts, and then making a determination as to which class and method should be dispatched. The advantage of such an implementation is that not only can you make your URLs Search Engine Optimization (SEO)-friendly, but you can also create rules, incorporating regular expression patterns, which can extract values of parameters.

How to do it...

  1. Probably the most popular approach is to take advantage of a web server that supports URL rewriting. An example of this is an Apache web server configured to use mod_rewrite. You then define rewriting rules that allow graphic file requests and requests for CSS and JavaScript to pass untouched. ...

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