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copied!<p>After thinking about this for a while, I found that the best solution (for me) to this is to have a string just hold all the arguments that I need in a clean URL.</p> <p>So, when users first come to <strong><a href="http://foo.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://foo.com/</a></strong> they are presented with a locations to select. Cookies are empty at this point. </p> <p>So, a user goes ahead and selects United-State, the URL will look like <a href="http://foo.com/12334_0_0_0/United-States/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://foo.com/12334_0_0_0/United-States/</a> and the location cookie is set to 1234 which is the id for location United States.</p> <p>Now the user selects California and the URL changes to <a href="http://foo.com/1235_0_0_0/United-States-California/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://foo.com/1235_0_0_0/United-States-California/</a> and cookie is replace from United states to 1235 which is the id for the location California. At this point the user selects Category Electronics. so the URL changes to <a href="http://foo.com/1235_3333_0_0/Electronics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://foo.com/1235_3333_0_0/Electronics/</a> and 3333 is saved in the Category Cookies. </p> <p>If the users drops down to SLR Camera, then s/he'll see <a href="http://foo.com/1235_3344_0_0/SLR-Cameras/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://foo.com/1235_3344_0_0/SLR-Cameras/</a>.</p> <p>This way, the first portion of the URL keeps track of up to 4 arguments which can be passed around and the names (slugs) are merely for presentation and SEO.</p> <p>I think this would work right? It would be cool to have the x_y_z_p portion of the URL encoded into some random text and decode back into args & numbers.</p> <p>Let me know what you do think?</p>

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