PHPKitchen has a new post today with some information and a look at a handy little bit of functionality that can be used to make "more friendly" URLs for your site.

Building accessibility URLs is easy with a function that returns an URL from the given arguments. It supports arguments in the most common formats like index.php?articles=foo&page=2 and /articles/foo/page/2 and array('articles' => 'test', 'page' => 2). It converts the parsed arguments and returns a complete url string. This way you always have consistent urls no matter what your data looks like.

If you prefer FriendlyURLs it returns /articles/test/page/2 if not it returns articles=test&page=2.

The buildURL class allows you to easily create and use these kinds of URLs as well as translating them back the other way. It's a nice little script to drop into an existing site to create this kind of functionality, and it's simple enough to where it can be adjusted easily if the need arises...