Kevin Vaughan

First off, if you haven't checked out Zend Framework, the first official release came out earlier this week. It takes a little bit to get around and learn the structure if you haven't seen it before, and probably a little bit longer still if you aren't familiar with things like design patterns, but this is the first really solid effort towards a framework for PHP 5.

Now, you've spent some time reading through the framework site, the documentation, whatever, and you're ready to get started. But the default link structure is not very search engine friendly and you want to dig into some different routing. What to do? Try out this content path router route, based on the other routes provided within the Zend Framework. This router will match all URL structures that end in either the Uri delimiter (/) or the content extension (default .html) (( but not /.html, )). The page and path will be set as request parameters so that your controller can determine if that particular page is supposed to exist based on whatever logic or business rules you decide.