I need to understand the big picture about how APIs work. For example, I can retreive a listing from ebay using a url like this: http://open.api.ebay.com/Shopping?callname=GetCategoryInfo&appid=************************************&siteid=3&CategoryID=-1&version=729&IncludeSelector=ChildCategories However much of the documentaion is about XML. I've never used XML before and…
When I click on this : <a href="#/home">home</a> the url is localhost/Sites/App/#!/#%2Fhome When I click on this : <a href="#!/home">home</a> the url is localhost/Sites/App/#!/home But this only works on my computer, for my co-workers it's the opposite, the links don't…
I have a search form using GET request. When I hit enter, the url is as usual not SEO friendly, is there a way in which I can make it display SEO friendly urls when entered? Eg. GET Request http://someurl.com?a=search&query=what+are+you+looking+for…
I have set up a multilingual website, whose default language is English and it is translated in many more languages. We have chosen for the subdirectory URL strategy, so that our URLs are like example.com/en, example.com/fr etc. Should the default…
I have a website that contains URLs in this format www.example.com/jobs.php?id=123456 All URLs are stored in a database. I want to make SEO friendly URLs (example:www.example.com/this-is-my-first-job) I have built this website in php. is it possible to generate SEO friendly…
Current situation I am developing an Online Order Management system application with PHP and I need to design REST resource mappings through URL scheme. I have typical resources: Customer (has Orders) Order (has Tickets) Ticket (has Messages) Message I am…
I have installed WordPress and created permalinks for every page. However, there is still a version available with example.com/?p=123 which represents the ID in the database. Is it possible to disable these links so only my permalink is available? I…
I'm nearing the end of my first web development project and I'm looking to build a sitemap for our website as part of Search Engine Optimalisation. If I understand correctly a sitemap, when done correctly, is a file that shows…
So I want my page to redirect to a different page when the user refreshes the page. I want the user to be redirected to index.html from gettingstarted.html when he/she refreshes the page. CODE: index.html: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head>…
So I've been trying to rewrite my php URLs with .htaccess so that they are more SEO/user friendly. Here is my code: RewriteBase / Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews DirectorySlash On RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l…