very great! is this a preliminary for the openSEF project?

Wow, that is fantastic. thanks for the hard work.

I assume from the title that this hack requires Joomla 1.0.2 and won't work with 1.0.1 and 1.0, right.

But you know what kind of questions will be coming next....

- I don't want to have /component/ in the path
- Will it work with SEF, Gallery2, Coppermine, and all the other non core components...
- lots of whining....


Otto

You can change the alias look at the image.

thanks Predator.



I did, but looking at your test site confused me - i see a URL like this.

http://www.joomladeveloping.org/component/contact/

Can I ommit the /component/ part altogether and create a URL like this (my leaving the component alia blank ?)

http://www.joomladeveloping.org/contact/

otto

Loading this brought up an error in mamblog for the user name links.  To fix it I commented out a couple of lines in the _cleanupString function on line 47 of mamblog's sef_ext.php to look like this:



Does anyone have a better solution?  It seems to work just fine now.

function _cleanupString( $string ) {
global $lowercase, $longurl, $url_replace;
$string = strtr( $string, " ", _SEF_SPACE );
//$string = strtr( $string, $url_replace ); <-- this line.
if ( $lowercase > 0 ) $string = strtolower( $string );
return $string;
}

Wow, this is great, thanks!  This is exactly the functionality Joomla has needed!  Trying it out now!

Edit:  Tried it out.  The /blogsection/0.html link ignores the menu's display settings (Leading/Intro/Columns).  I have mine set to 4 Leading, 0 Intro, 1 Column and all I get what appears to be 2 columns of 6 entries (they don't appear to be Intros)).  Also, when I click it I don't get the Category submenus appearing.

Hi predator will this now work for joomla 1.0.3 ? Just did the update and lost the Sef URls

New Version for 1.0.3

Thanks........must be a headache for you to do this evertime they release a Stablity version

Hi,

Thanks for this - it looks like it will be a marvellous addition to Joomla.

In an effort to 'give back' and in the interests of clarity I have made the following observations / recommendations related to the wording of options and explanations on the SEO tab in global config. I hope no-one takes offence, I am aware that many people here don't use English as their primary language and I am in awe of anyone who works in any language other than their own.

Cheers

Dean Marshall

These observations are related to the 1.0.3 version - which I am currently putting through its paces.


SEF Mode:
Current description:
Compact is the known Joomla way of generating URLs. Advanced makes long URLs but maybe cause some performance. The options below are for the advanced mode

My amendment:
Compact generates URLs using Joomla\'s standard SEF method. Advanced creates human readable URLs but might cause a loss of performance. The remaining options below only apply to the advanced mode


Length of URLs?:
Current:
  No  Yes    Shorter URLs (by title), longer URLs (by name)

(No Yes - this doesn't seem the right choice)
Short Long  - perhaps?
Not sure about Shorter = title, longer = name - is this the right way around. (is it the name, or the title alias?)


Lower-Case All URLs?:
I would reword this option as 'Force lower case URLs?'

Home menu URL:
Reword question as 'Home URL = / (root)'


alias for components:
In the alias for components section the 'overlib' descriptions all contain 'do not use underscore of hyphen do avoid confusion.
the 'do' should be 'to' - to avoid confusion.

Anywhere I can get a copy of well documented sef_ext.php file?