Jørn Wildt
Dealing with Zikula and other interesting stuff
short urls another howto
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To change the usual address to a nice one I change the template, so that it produces the links I want to. Instead of the core.FullUrl I use sth like that:
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<a href="ps_<!--[$core.tid]-->_<!--[$core.pid]-->_<!--[$core.title|strip:"-"|regex_replace:"/[,|_|;]/":"-"|escape:"url"]-->.htm"><!--[$core.title]--></a>
The REGEX to convert those links to the "ugly" ones looks like that:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^ps_([0-9]{1,4})_([0-9]{1,4})_.*$ index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=&pid= [L]
Perhaps this is not very new, but I didn't find a description of this simple method.
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This is really cool, and more standard... Could it be made to use slashes insted of underscores? Can you make it show something like:
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http://www.mydomain.com/YYYY/mm/dd/tid/pid/title.html
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This because it would look so much better and it would also add "time of posting" into context.
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Sure, you are building the url yourself, so you can use any character you want. You just have to "Regex" it afterwards.
How about this:
For me the Regex would be slightly easier like this:Code
http://www.mydomain.com/tid/pid/YYYY/mm/dd/title.html
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{1,4})/([0-9]{1,4})/.*$ index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=&pid= [L]
For the Date I found three variables:
created
lastUpdated
publishDate
You could use them in the template somehow like this:
$core.lastUpdated|date_format:"%B/%e/%Y"
The whole thing would be so:
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<a href="<!--[$core.tid]-->/<!--[$core.pid]-->/<!--[$core.lastUpdated|date_format:"<the-date-format>"]-->/<!--[$core.title|strip:"-"|regex_replace:"/[,|_|;]/":"-"|escape:"url"]-->.htm"><!--[$core.title]--></a>
For the %sth's of the look here:
http://smarty.php.net under date_format.
edited by: drichter, Dec 03, 2006 - 09:56 PM