I have a created a quite simple script that builds permalinks, using PHP/MySQL.
Yes, I know that it is normally done by altering the htaccess-file, but my host does not provide it.
This works for me, but my question is if it's SEO-friendly.
Here goes:
1. I have a MySQL-table with all the pages on my site, indexed of course.
2. The database also contains most of the text that will be displayed on the pages. So... I don't have many static pages... but most of them are dynamic. Each page is connected to a manually created permalink string in the table.
For example: a page about "fast cars" may have id = 32. The permalink added is "fast-cars"
3. I have a php-script that reads the index of a page, fetches the permalink and then creates a folder with the name "fast-cars". It also creates a php-file in that folder (index.php) with the code: