[geeklog-devtalk] How to use url rewriting?

[Dimitri Michaux]

Hey everybody,

This is the first time I'm using a mailinglist, so I hope I'm doing it 
right.

So, I'm making a wiki plugin for Geeklog that I'm building from scratch. 
(It's not really a wiki, but it's going to use the wiki-markup language. 
It's going to look a lot like a wiki, but it's also going have some 
extra features I need.) I've made a plugin once before, but nobody 
showed any intrest in it -it also was a stupid plugin- so I stoped  
developping it.

But now I wan't to do it right. I wan't to include all those cool 
features like bad word filter and espacially the modrewrite.

I've mailed Tony Bibbs about this and he gave me a good start on how to 
use url rewriting, but I still have some questions:

    * I'm not sure, but I think I have to use the function
      COM_buildURL(). This functions will then return a more readable
      url if url rewriting is enabeld. Is this all? Or is there about it?
    * Who does the php scripts know what the rewritten url means?
      (/article.php?story=title doesn't look the same as
      /article.php/title) Is there more about it? Or does it just work?

I hope I did use this mailinglist right and I'm looking forward for a reply.

Greetings,
    Dimitri