SEO - short URLs vs longer PHP URLs

[susapra]

Is there any real SEO benefit from simplifying my PHP urls to shorter, neater urls (with mod_rewrite)? I want to do this mostly to make my site look nicer - but if it's good for search engines, then all the better.
Is there any reason NOT to make shorter URLs?
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[shadav]

there are no really benefits...shorter urls just look nicer and are easier to remember

but as for the search engines, no it doesn't matter how the url is...i know a lot of forums that don't use seo urls and they still have high prs

[elena]

ofcourse ther ar benefits on having the url shorter for example shorter URLs are better since people often type them manually and short URL alias is much less likely to be broken...

[roblas]

Originally Posted by susapra

Is there any real SEO benefit from simplifying my PHP urls to shorter, neater urls (with mod_rewrite)? I want to do this mostly to make my site look nicer - but if it's good for search engines, then all the better.
Is there any reason NOT to make shorter URLs?

I think there is no matter with url is longer or shorter but It should be static url.