web adddress format

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  crawfd · Member · Oct 29, 2008 at 3:23 am

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  When populating a web address like: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/pie-in-the-sky/

  How does wordpress (and other blogging sites for that matter) populate the date and title extension programmatically?

  Is this done by the use of URL rewriting? Or is the date and the title parsed by php dynamically?

  Thanks

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  trent · Member · Oct 30, 2008 at 4:00 am

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  It is done by using Mod Rewrite and is pulled from the saved title of the entry and the date it was posted (or autosaved as draft). That is why you need to change the URL with the little “edit” button once it autosaves.

  Trent