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So I'm working on an affiliate website and I'm trying to figure out how to get a different URL for every product on my website.

So let's say i've got a page called www.mywebsite.com/products with all the different products on there that I get from my database. When I click on one of the products it's supposed to go to the URL www.mywebsite.com/products/testproduct. If I click on a different product it's supposed to go to www.mywebsite.com/products/testproduct 2 etc... How do I get a URL for every product on my product page? I've been searching for a long time and I'm sure it's an easy solution cause every webshop has this function, but I just can't really explain what I want to Google, so that's why I'm asking here.

Is there like a term for this that I can look up? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Max
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  • You probably want to search for "clean urls". Often also known as "semantic URLs" and used in conjunction with a RESTful interface. These search terms will put you on the right path – Darren H Nov 20 '16 at 14:27
  • Possible duplicate of [Reference: mod\_rewrite, URL rewriting and "pretty links" explained](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20563772/reference-mod-rewrite-url-rewriting-and-pretty-links-explained) – Croises Nov 20 '16 at 16:33

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You could make the website with a GET element.

So you list all your items on the page product/, and when you click on something it will link to testproduct/?id=[itemid]

Then you can use php 

$_GET['id'];

and with that you can request all details from the database and print them on the page.

No clue if that helped but that is what I would do.

EDIT: for security reasons (SQL injections) use:

filter_var($_GET["id"], FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
Paul de Koning
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  • I suggest skipping the last recommandation, using prepared/parameterized queries should be enough to protect against SQL injection. filter_var is usually used to protect against XSS when outputting data. – JimL Nov 20 '16 at 14:28
  • This will not work the way he describes it. He doesn't seem to have a system in place to transform his database data (the products) into nice urls like the permalink system in WordPress. – RST Nov 20 '16 at 15:02