I have made a joomla component and wise to make the site sef. The problem is that some of the URL from the components put values by get method. so that the next page can do the task accordingly.
say
index.php?option=com_mediaonline&view=mediaonline&task=234&id=837
so that the next page will process the task accordingly, with task = 234 and id = 837. If i try to make it sef urls then nothing will work properly.
Is there any sef components or other extension available to solve this issue.
The best component for this is sh404sef, look for it in extensions.joomla.org and making the sef file for your component won't take more than 2 days
Have you not considered writing your own using a router.php file?
http://docs.joomla.org/Routing
Although sh404sef is useful I've found ACEsef to be better.
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I am asking if is it possible do the following thing using Joomla
I have 2 different URL, something like: www.stupidname.com and www.seriousname.com
If the user open stupidname.com by his browser will open the website having a stupid template
If the user open seriusname.com by his browser will open the website having a serious template
The website and the content are the same...should only change the template according to the url open in the browser
Do you have some ideas about how to do this thing?
Thanks
Andrea
I've done this before making elements of a template conditional based on the domain name, and that can work well. I suppose you could extend the same logic to change the template.
Perhaps you could add a conditional to both template's index.php to change the template. Perhaps something like...
if ( substr_count( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], "silly") ) {
$GLOBALS["mainframe"]->setTemplate = "silly_template_name";
} else {
$GLOBALS["mainframe"]->setTemplate = "serious_template_name";
}
...I've not tested this, but I think in principle it should work fine, though it might depend on which Joomla version you have.
There are, as saji89 pointed out, plenty of good multi-site extensions and that'd be an ok solution too.
From my personal experience with Joomla I can advise you to use the component Virtual Domains (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/multiple-sites/7557) you can add the domains which you redirect to the main site where Joomla is installed and it this component you assign them the template you want.
I can confirm the functionality on Joomla 2.5 latest update with usage of around 5+ different Virtual Domains on one Joomla installation.
Some possible downsides i want to mention:
SEO links can get sometimes messy, you need to play with some SEO component and its settings
its better to use same structure and components for boths side its easier because otherwise the administration gets messy but its possible
the user which register on one website has automatically account on all of them because its one Joomla
I am busy making a Joomla! component. And know i want to link to another component. So, as example i want to link from my component 'my_component' to 'his_component'. Normally this is simple to do. Just make a normal link like href="?option=com_his_component". But the problem is that one of my consumers uses SEO friendly URLs. And in that case this URL won't work.
Does anyone know a way to this the correct way (I think with the Joomla! Api)
Just wrap that link with a call to JRoute::_($url):
$link = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_his_component&foo=bar');
I’m a recent user of Codeigniter and am developing a simple backend CMS to manage pages.
Based on a URL (in this example I have hidden “index.php”) : mysite.com/pagename
I would like the system to detect if there is a value of “pagename” in my database, if there is, I need the system to re-route to a custom controller (eg: Pagemaker) and if there is no record called pagename, just do it’s normal thing (i.e. find a controller called pagename)
Currently I have:
$route['(:any)'] = "pagemaker/create/$1";
whereby all requests are forwarded to my custom function.
However I want to change this structure so that if the page does NOT exist in the db, the traditional codeigniter request process is followed.
Can anyone offer any advice about how to complete this? Or any advice about routing custom CMS’s in codeigniter in general?
The best solution is to upgrade to CI 2.0 because it's stable enough and it gives you plenty of useful features.
In your case, set the following route:
$route['404_override'] = 'pagemaker';
If the router doesn't know where to go it just goes to pagemaker controller. This can then check if the first uri segment exists and if not you create a custom 404 page instead of the crappy default one.
And I don't want to hear any of this "Oh but it's not released yet" crap, I've been using it CI 2.0 for almost a year. ;-)
I can think of two possibilities:
1) Edit your custom function to let it redirect your client when page's not in the db
pseudo code:
if($dbresult == null){
redirect("http://yoursite.com/"+$this->uri->segment(3));
}
2) Edit the router class of CI so it will first check if the page's in the db and if not, just continues. This may be somewhat messier as you need a db connection in your Router.php
I made a component and now I want to customize the link for it.
I already wrote the router.php.
The link to the component view (if I use the JRoute function of course) now looks good, except for the first part, which looks like :
http://www.example.com/en/component/componentname/...
don't mind the "en", it's there cause I use JomFish to manage more languages on my site.
I want to transform "/component/componentname/" to "/myString/" for example.
I can't use the menu for this, cause my site displays info from a database, linking this many sites to my menu is impossible.
The only solution I found requires the changing of the Joomla JRoute function (I found only a suggestion, not how it's done :( ).
What about using mod_rewrite to rewrite your url?
Basically you put the rewrite rules into your .htaccess file and Apache will handle the rest.
There is a great guide that teaches you all about it on http://www.htmlist.com/how-to/a-simplemod_rewrite-tutorial/
I have a custom Joomla component and a router for building my SEF URL's for use within the site, and everything is usually shiny - internally, all of my links look and act fantastic.
I recently route a controller action that sends a list of links through email, and I've noticed that my URLs are coming out.... funky - hopefully someone can tell me why.
Usually, my router generates an internal link that looks like this:
http://localhost/Registry/calendar/265889635/Some-Long-Boring-Event
However, when I send an email and preparing the same URL through the same router I get:
http://localhost/Registry/Registry/component/calendar/569555803/Some-Long-Boring-Event
Has anybody run into this issue before?
Check your Itemid GET parameter in the URL. My guess is that it's not set in the url used in emails...
I would turn off SEF URLs temporarily and get the non-SEF version of the link you want. Compare that will the URL you are using and see what is different/missing.