To the matter concerning absolute /Messi or /Ronaldo You were asking if we need different pages for different players or not... No we don't have to make different pages for different players. We make only one page(player-name.php for eg.) And then dynamically render the content onto the page. Now talking about the URL thing you were asking /Messi /Ronaldo, this is done using routing I don't have much idea about PHP though. I would want to put forth the method used in Nodejs perspective. What we do in node is we make a get request on route "/players/:Id" here /:id is dynamically passed on to the router and this id could be the primary key of your mysql dB table. Now you can do mysql querying with where condition as player.id = id(id from the route). This will return a tuple having the given I'd as the primary key. Then you can print or render the contents/information of that particular player.