virtual folder/directory in url

Hello,

One of my mate asked me if it's a good solution to have a virtual folders in a url ?

Basically, they are working on a developing CMS system for articles website (They publish many articles).

For instance - www.xyz.com/news/sports/index.php

Here news and sports folder are virtual.

This link can also work as -

www.xyz.com/index.php

or www.xyz.com/dir/etc/index.php

Pros -

1.) There is no need to create a folder or category for an article.
2.) They only need to name the virtual directory by whatever name they like. In future, if admin wants to create all together a new menu system, they can change it. They do not have to create a folder or directory for the article to exist.
3.) This way url can be very SEO friendly.

Cons -

1.) They can not have the two pages/articles same same.

For instance - they can not create another index.php page in this scenario.

So if admin tries to create a new page/article by name index.php - he will get an error saying "this page/article already exist. Please chose another name".

Tbh, I think this can cause lot of conflicts in the future, where they want to name two articles under different category by a same name -

For instance there are two sections - sports and technology and admin wants to create -

www.xyz.com/sports/car.php

and similary,

www.xyz.com/technology/car.php

They can not create car.php again, even if they want to place it under different category as category is all virtual.

I might be completely wrong, and may be they are suggesting a good solution. What are your thoughts about it? Is this the way to go?

Thanks

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