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CoreSEF Hack for Joomla 1.0.2

As discussed in this thread: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,427.0.html i'm pleased to announce the Release of an Core Hack to give you extended SEF URLS without using a component for it.

The Hack also supports the sef_ext.php files for SEF Advance.

Demo:  http://www.joomladeveloping.org/

Download here

Beware this is a Corehack and not an official Core Addon.

Just overwrite the files in your Joomla 1.0.2 installation with the files contained in the zip folder, go to your Global Configuration and change the needed values. This only works if the "normal" Coresef" has worked before.

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wow predator those URLs looks awesome. I gonna give it a shot. 

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

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awesome!!! this hack rox

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We are still waiting for Arto so i made this for my personal amusement

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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

It will work with all Versions including Mambo, but for Joomla you have to check the changes in the administrator/components/com_config to make them also available for the lower versions, for Mambo the same with one extra editing:

in the includes/sef.php

after:



You have to add:





You can change the alias look at the image.

The other Components need a sef_ext.php so they also can use this, i'm currently also working on some sef_ext.php i.e. for the SMF, but at least the component developers are in duty to make their components available for SEF URL's ( simple SEF URL's as used in the normal Core SEF file, which is also supported by this hack ) or by creating sef_ext.php for advanced SEF URL's.

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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

See what you mean, i have changed it, files are updated so please download again. You can check it on the demosite.

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Great work.  Thank you!

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loving it..

Thanks for quick reply.

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.

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.

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Did you tried this way?




Any other issues found?

I guess to make it 100% compatible to the sef_ext.php for SEF Advance i have to rename if a sef_ext.php exist the config values i.e.

$lowercase = $mosConfig_sef_lowercase;

But only if an sef_ext.php is used.

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I changed the function as you suggested and I get the same link errors as before I removed the lines.

http://www.mysite.com/%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cb% ... 0%20strtr():%20The%20second%20argument%20is%20not%20an%20array.%20in%20%3Cb%3E/home/business/public_html/components/com_mamblog/sef_ext.php%3C/b%3E%20on%20line%20%3Cb%3E50%3C/b%3E%3Cbr%20/%3Ehttp://www.mysite.com/component/mamblog/user//

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Did this sef_ext.php file works before with an other SEF component, or is it your first run with this?

Well if the deleted lines didn't mess anything up it should be ok, wil check if this an issue of the sef_ext.php or my hack.

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Ah i found this here: http://forum.mamboserver.com/showpost.p ... ostcount=1 there is an issue with the sef_ext.php file.



so maybe this should work:

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Thanks again!    That did the trick.

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That's one way to kick in your welcome to the team
Now you gonna owe Emir some serious cash for that one!
I'm sure you just won the hearts of many though. great work!
THANKS!

The reason that Marko states this is a Core Hack is that it will not be the method adopted to extend SEF within the Core in the future.


Although this approach enables some flexibility, it is not extensible for 3rd Party Addons and a better method (which we have discussed already with Marko) will be utilised within the core in the future - which will see the introductioon of SEFBot mambots [something that was already in teh pipeline even before Marko's addition to the team].

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Overread your Update, yes i have notice it also now, will check where the issue is and will fixed it, guess this is the last issue which i found also.

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

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New Version for 1.0.3

Download here

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

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No not really just toke me 2 minutes to have it Joomla 1.0.3 ready

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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.

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Thanks for the hint with the overlib descriptions, forgot to change them  with short / long it means title and title alias of course will change this to avoid confusion.

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Anywhere I can get a copy of well documented sef_ext.php file?
I need to add one to a component im building/testing, and as you know my php is not great.

I havent decided if I am going to use the hack, Open sef, advanced SEf or 404sef.

Can anyone give a pros and cons list of which works best?

There is a problem with the hack and Joomlaboard.  When I click on a post to read it I get:

An invalid post id was requested.
\n

With Advanced URLs the link looks like this: http://www.mysite.com/component/option, ... ,2/id,1#1/ and I get the error message.

With Simple URLs the link looks exactly the same: http://www.mysite.com/component/option, ... ,2/id,1#1/ but it works as it should.

Any ideas or solutions?

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Sample sef_ext.php files:

MamBlog 1.0 RC2 sef_ext.php
http://opensef.org/component/option,com ... opic,720.0

Bookmarks sef_ext.php
http://opensef.org/component/option,com ... opic,699.0


Well documented? - You're funny.

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