Brickley's
Words

Well, after installing the new version of WordPress, I actually read some of the documentation, and found that it has these neato gizmoes called permalinks. Seasoned bloggers are probably laughing at how long it took me to figure this out, and all I can really do is say “better late than never.”

Anyway, I’ve changed Brickley’s Words to use permalinks, and one effect of that is to make the page URLs a lot nicer, including my Instruction Cross Reference page.

The new link is here. As usual, let me know if anything doesn’t work the way it should.

This actually turned out to be non-trivial, as I had coded the page with little knowledge of WordPress, and no knowledge of permalinks. So quite a few changes were required, but I think it’s all working now.

Note that the old URLs (see here) should still work, and probably always will unless a future update of WordPress changes things. But I would encourage anyone who has used these links in their pages to update to the new format:

The main link to the page is http://www.br-eng.info/words/index.php/search-lego-instructions/, all other variations are linked by adding parameters to the end of that URL. The options are:

• Instruction query – ?ins_qry=xxx

  You can query the database via a link, by adding the ins_qry parameter. The search string must be numeric, between 3 and 7 digits. For example:
  http://www.br-eng.info/words/index.php/search-lego-instructions/?ins_qry=10030

• LEGO Instruction code – ?ins_code=4xxxxxx

  If you know the 7 digit LEGO code, you can link to it by adding the ins_code parameter. The search string must be numeric, 7 digits long, and start with “4”. For example:
  http://www.br-eng.info/words/index.php/search-lego-instructions/?ins_code=4187320

• Peeron set code – ?ins_set=xxx-x

  If you know the Peeron set number, you can link to it by adding the ins_set parameter. The search string must be numeric, between 3 and 7 digits, and contain a hyphen followed by the Peeron suffix. For example:
  http://www.br-eng.info/words/index.php/search-lego-instructions/?ins_set=10030-1

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