Huddled Masses

Well, I’ve been playing with mod_rewrite and I’ve finally got it working the way I like it. Of course, now I have to choose which type of link I like best.

I can actually link like this, if I have unique post titles: /post/mod-rewrite/

Or, using unique post titles within a given month, I can use any of the following:

• /January2004/mod-rewrite/
• /Jan2004/mod-rewrite/
• /Jan/2004/mod-rewrite/
• /January/2004/mod-rewrite/
• /Jan_2004/mod-rewrite/

• /January_2004/mod-rewrite/

Or even, the lower-case version of any of those links:

• /january2004/mod-rewrite/
• /jan2004/mod-rewrite/
• /jan/2004/mod-rewrite/
• /january/2004/mod-rewrite/
• /jan_2004/mod-rewrite/

• /january_2004/mod-rewrite/

Of course, I could just keep doing what I’m doing, and link with the full date, which allows me to repeat story titles as often as I want, as long as I don’t do it twice in one day: /2004/1/3/mod-rewrite/

Oh the choices … [;-)] My favorite bit is how you can use any of these to link to the whole month, and get the front-page-style listing of all the posts in the month.

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