MVC form over convention

amen

I am developing a site using a MVC model (want to learn it ).

It will be used for displaying range of static data with no user input.

I will have various different categories such as schools.

Have you hava URL like
schools/primary

or

schoolsprimary?

when accessing the schools would you use
id.php
or
myschoolname.php

all comments appreciated.

I'm divided 50/50

fasty

Will you have primary and secondary schools?

If so, I'd call the controller Schools then for viewing schools in each category I would use:

Schools/CategoryName

Regarding the id or name. I always have a hard time deciding on this myself. I use ASP.Net MVC so in the end I made routes to refer to record by id or name but just stuck with the id in the end.

If you're rolling your own URL router you might not be at that stage yet, so I guess go for ids for now and change it later? Really, it's up to you.

amen

yes primary and secondary schools.

Yeah using ASP.Net MVC.

Haven't got as far as url yet