How do they do that?

Peter B

Could someone please tell me how Amazon create use links such as this to access pages?

What sort of directory structure do they use?

http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/037541486X/ref=pd_ts_c_th_1/103-9086696-6630232?ie=UTF8

I am working in PHP by the way.

I understand when you insert a file name without the .php ending and manually tell your server to output this file name as a php file.

Then you use the forward slashes after the filename is entered as query arguments.

Such as

www.whatever.com/cars/peugeot206

The server send outs cars out as a php script. This PHP script uses "peugeot206" as a search argument returning the webpage on the peugeot 206.

I am trying to improve my search engine results so am interested if anyone could shed some light on how amazon configures their links.

Thanks

akari no ryu

mod_rewrite.
It has nothing to do with PHP, it's a server setting