PHPld SEO Friendly Articles 

This is based on the mod i came accross over on waikey.com. However this mod didn't work for me. To make it work i had to make some changes. I am simply sharing what works for me :)

1. Locate article-link.tpl in you current template folder.

Find:

articles/article-{$article.ID}.html

Replace with:

articles/{$article.TITLE|escape|trim|replace:' ':'-'}-{$article.ID}.html

2. Locate article.php in the root folder

Find:

preg_match ('#(.*)article(_|-)(d+).htm[l]?$#i', request_uri(), $matches);

Replace with:

preg_match ('#(.*)(_|-)(d+).htm[l]?$#i', request_uri(), $matches);

3. Locate .htaccess in the root folder

Find:

(.*)articles/article-(.*).htm[l]?$ article.php [QSA,NC,L]

Replace with:

(.*)articles/(.*).htm[l]?$ article.php [QSA,NC,L]

Hope this is helpful to someone. :)