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I am building a site with PHP/MySQL, and I was wondering.. Is there a good way to get URLs like

/gallery/index.php?section=illustration&id=27

to appear as, and and be accessible from something like

/gallery/illustration/tree-27

where "tree-27" is the name of the picture and its id. (Having the id number in the URL along with the name prevents to images with identical names from causing problems..)

Thanks fesworks ^^

@ griever: Hmm.. Good question.

While I would post many of the same pieces on both sites, I dislike the way dA handles quick sketches and comics. I would like to be able to post sketches in more of a blog format, and it would be nice to be able to put comics up in a more organised way. Currently, I just don't post that many sketches, and while I may put up a few comic pages on my dA account, dA's gallery just isn't suited to them. I would like to have the freedom to present and organise stuff (not just comics and sketches, but also finished illustrations, drawings, paintings etc.) in any way I like. Basically, I think I would post a wider variety of things if given the chance to post them in a wider variety of ways.

Also, and this may be the biggest point, I am interested in designing and building the site for its own sake - not just as another on line gallery.

Yes, I am planning to study art in college..
Thank you.

That is what I figured. I was hoping to get some more input... Perhaps I should put up a more critiqueable demo web page?

(I just updated my dA gallery too, if that is any help.)

OK.. Comments, anyone..?

Sample site looks pretty good to me.. My one complaint is that the links are un-labelled.. it would be nice to know what is there without mousing over and waiting. At least having some more obvious text appear when a viewer mouses over the link icons would be nice, though I would prefer to see a link name without mousing over at all - it is annoying to have to go over every link just to find what I am looking for. Although having link names can clutter up your layout, people will be more likely to click on a link if they can actually see it from the start.

Hope that helps, and as I said, other than that, the sample looks quite good.

@ cha0s: Thanks ^^ Yes, usually PHP files are fine, but there are situations where .php and .inc files can sometimes become exposed on some servers, so I have heard that it is generally safest to keep sensitive stuff from being URL accessible if the server starts treating the files as plain text.. Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

@ Xepher: Ah, OK, even better. (Wow, VM level hosting...)

Thank you for responding.

Well, after lurking here for several years, I have finally registered on the forums, and, well, here goes.

Desired URL: yny-u.xepher.net
Email: webmaster ~a~ yny-u ~dot~ com

Proposed site: A place to experiment with web design and host my art - sketches, paintings, illustrations, comics, photographs, etc.

To see what I can do art-wise: http://yny-u.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured

Let me see.. I am familiar the XHTML, CSS, PHP/MySQL/Smarty and a bit of Javascript - to see an example, go  to http://yny-u.110mb.com. As you will see, they have disabled MySQL, but that should at least show that I can put together a basic web page (I hope ^^; ).

Technical questions... If this site proposal is accepted, can I have at least one directory outside the root? I would like to have one to store sensitive PHP includes (like db passwords). Also, I have recently started using PHP's Smarty templating engine (http://smarty.php.net/). Installing it is quite simple (if you don't have it already - basically just adding an include path to php.ini, creating a few directories, and sticking some PHP files in them. More info on installing Smarty: http://smarty.php.net/quick_start.php). If it is too much trouble, that is fine, but Smarty is such a neat tool that I though I would at least ask..

OK, well, that about covers it I think.. If anyone has any questions, please ask me. Any critiques or suggestions would be most welcome.

Ah, great! I look forward to it ^^ There is no rush, I was just curious..

Just wondering if applications will be opened up again any time soon.. Now that the new server is up and all...

Please let there be a free SFTP client thing for mac, or else we have more issues.

You can also use SCP I think. Just open up the Terminal, and change to the directory containing the files you want to upload. To change directories, type: cd /path/to/directory/
When you are in the directory with the stuff you want to upload, type: scp SourceFile user@host:directory/TargetFile
If the command is successful, you should be prompted for your Xepher.net password, and then the file(s) will upload.

For more info on SCP go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy

It isn't as nice as a GUI driven FTP client, but it is fairly easy to pick up. And there are a few short-cuts. For example, you can batch upload files by typing "*.php" (without the quotes) instead of the file name in the command above. This will upload all files with the .php ending in the current directory. This works for other file types too. Basically, * is short-hand for "all", so *.html and *.java also work.

Hope that helps.

The news box is looking pretty good. Will it be possible to change the background colour?

And yes, IE is... A real pain.

Welcome back ^o^