[MLUG] Cleaning up web page URL's

["Bruce Alspaugh" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Sometimes it is convenient to have the user click a link on a web page that 
passes info to a PHP script.  I've been using links like:

<a href="myscript.php?action=myaction&page=mypage">My link</a>

I can "get" the values of action and page in the script and output the html 
accordingly.  This works great, but then I noticed that the URL in the 
address bar of the browser displays ugly stuff like: 
http://www.mydomain.com/myscript.php?action=myaction&page=mypage

The only way I know to clean up the URL to something nicer is to have 
myscript.php extract the get variables, save them in session variables, and 
call the PHP function header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/myaction/";) 
to redirect the browser to another script which reads the values back out of 
the session variables, processes the request, and outputs the html.  This 
requires the browser to go through a redirect process and make another trip 
back to the web server.

Of course there has to be a simpler way to clean things up.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bruce

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