: ?cid= and ?pid= pages need to be fixed We have recently changed the platform and design of our website. Now I am having difficulty with url structure. Main product URL shows something like,

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I'd go for the following structure:

/categories
/categories/23-foo
/categories/36-bar

/products
/products/124-examplename
/products/150-othername


I added categories/products in the url so you can differentiate between them, and this makes the url more obvious to what it does.
Also, I've added an ID in the url. This is an important thing! You should get the id from the url because:


It's always unique as you can use the Auto Increment value
Searching in your DB should be via integers as much as possible as it is WAY faster
Prevents the problem when two products are named identical (Brand A & B both use 'ThisName')
You can change the name/url of the product without rendering all your links useless


I prefixed the ID, if you want to postfix (e.g.: /products/example-123) you can do that.

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