Remove article id from url for joomla 3.0

[FlashRebel]

google remember ulrs well sometimes make me headache

btw. urls structure did not change in Joomla, urls are the same what I remember Joomla. So if your urls changed after update, there is another issue.

[Josh Lewis]

I thought about using wordpress but I'm so use to joomla now.

I still have confidence that "Warhack" will follow through with creating ID-less ids for the core. Perhaps Joomla 3.5? Joomla has too many cool extensions to swap over to wordpress in my opinion.

[sounds]

Yea you're right, everything I couldn't dream of developing is available for Joomla.
URLs should be cleaner from the word go. core!

This is ok for a forum based URL
viewtopic.php?f=712&t=826165&sid=7f66af40e654d6732a34c92c5b671102&p=3215556#p3215556
Not for a catalog of articles.

[Josh Lewis]

At least it's just an id number. Joomla used to have url's that were worse. Also auto incrementing would be great for alias's so that articles could have the same name.

[nanjicong]

This was from some other site, works perfectly on Joomla 3.1.5 and 3.2.

Step 1

Joomla 3.0.2: This is the only way I got it working. If you find another way, please let us know!
Edit “components/com_content/router.php“, then continue on step 2.
Remember, you’ll probably have to re-do this step every time you update Joomla.

Step 2 (There are two places need to do this change, one near the top, one in the middle)
Replace this:

$advanced = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 0);
With this:

$advanced = $params->get('sef_advanced_link', 1);


Step 3
You want to edit your router.php file:
- From: ->where($db->quoteName(‘alias’) . ‘ = ‘ . $db->quote($db->quote($segment)));
- To: ->where($db->quoteName(‘alias’) . ‘ = ‘ . $db->quote($segment));

It seems Step 3 is not needed in Joomla 3.3.4, since it is changed by the Joomla team.

[IPN]

It is my understanding that in 3.5 the URLs will be working out of the box without any need to hacking of these files.

[sounds]

I should hope so.. keeps fingers crossed

[Josh Lewis]

Alias incrementing should be implemented just like EasyBlog. In other words if two articles have the same title, the second one should be article-page-title-2.

[sounds]

None of my 100's of articles have the same name and they all have those stupid numbers.

[Josh Lewis]

What I was talking about was for those really rare scenarios were users happen to name something the same. We as admins know what we titled our articles. The method I prescribed allows virtually all articles to not have id's as long as it's implemented by J 3.5.

[sounds]

Wouldn't it be more sensible if you tried to create an article with the same name
Joomla would tell you there's an article with this name already, just like alias does.

[Josh Lewis]

Joomla does not tell you about duplicate titles, it forces unique alias's.

I suppose this forces people to come up with a new title.

[nanjicong]

It is my understanding that in 3.5 the URLs will be working out of the box without any need to hacking of these files.

That would be great!

[thai916]

just installed JoomSEF and forget about it..

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... 9tc2VmIjt9

[4commerce]

At least it's just an id number. Joomla used to have url's that were worse. Also auto incrementing would be great for alias's so that articles could have the same name.

Yeah, that would be cool... In that way Admins can forget about worrying of repeating URLs. Nevertheless, the currect ID numbers at the beginning of the article names is kind of annoying. It's the only objection that I have of Joomla so far.

Regards!

[4commerce]

It is my understanding that in 3.5 the URLs will be working out of the box without any need to hacking of these files.

That would be great!

I agree with you... is there any URL where users can submit suggestions? Maybe we can create a petition list of something like that!

Regards!

[sounds]

I ended up using joomsef thanks Thai916

just installed JoomSEF and forget about it..

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... 9tc2VmIjt9

[Josh Lewis]

I agree with you... is there any URL where users can submit suggestions?

http://ideas.joomla.org/forums/84261-joomla-idea-pool

Here is a link to the urls without id's idea. I'm currently using Viktor's mod which works great. No need for any clunky extensions. The down side is that I may have to wait longer to upgrade to Joomla 3.4 when it's released.

[4commerce]

I agree with you... is there any URL where users can submit suggestions?

http://ideas.joomla.org/forums/84261-joomla-idea-pool

Here is a link to the urls without id's idea. I'm currently using Viktor's mod which works great. No need for any clunky extensions. The down side is that I may have to wait longer to upgrade to Joomla 3.4 when it's released.

Thanks man, I just voted for the idea of "SEF URL without id numbers". Just one more question, why you said that you may have to wait to upgrade to Joomla 3.4?

[4commerce]

I ended up using joomsef thanks Thai916

just installed JoomSEF and forget about it..

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... 9tc2VmIjt9

Hello,

Could you confirm if the extension is free of paid? I followed the link, but I found many options for download (ARTIO JoomSEF 4.5.6 / 3.12.1/ etc.) Also, what would happen if Joomla (oper source) fix this issue in a future version and I don't need the extension anymore and I decide to uninstall it?... will I lost all the URLs that I've created?

Thanks in advance!

[Josh Lewis]

That statement only applies to my person website. It's using Viktor's mod which was created specifically for Joomla 3.3.6. I will need a new mod for Joomla 3.4. The router in Joomla 3.4 is going to have some changes that will help Joomla go in the direction of IDless urls. Here is a interesting read for those who have been keeping up with the progress of IDless pages: http://joomlager.de/crowdfunding/9-it-lives-and-grows

One of these days I'll have to share how my articles have a url of site/article-name. (the simplest structure possible) And yes it's using Joomla's standards. I admit that so far I've only gotten it to work with one section considering that Joomla menu item's for articles force you to select a category.

[Josh Lewis]

Also, what would happen if Joomla (oper source) fix this issue in a future version and I don't need the extension anymore and I decide to uninstall it?... will I lost all the URLs that I've created?

Theoretically no. This assumes that you don't use a SEF extension to modify the alias of an article. So for example if your url goes from "site/menu-item/id-article-alias" to "site/menu-item/article-alias" and then you have the extension removed once Joomla has this natively, then the url structure should be exactly the same.

[sounds]

I don't think I set any URLs, just installed and the numbers/IDs were gone from the URLs.
There's a free and paid version http://extensions.joomla.org/extension? ... extended=1

[Josh Lewis]

Keep in mind that currently JED queries do not produce unique url's that search the page you are looking for. In other words, that link above does not link to the JED listing.

[NormaDeal]

Yeah this method is also working for me. Thanks

[Josh Lewis]

Anyone can test the new routing methods as seen here:
http://joomlager.de/crowdfunding/11-hap ... s-our-goal

I'm not saying it will make id-less posts, but this is our best chance at helping make it happen. So please test away so that it will help remove ids.

[4commerce]

I don't think I set any URLs, just installed and the numbers/IDs were gone from the URLs.
There's a free and paid version http://extensions.joomla.org/extension? ... extended=1

Hey,

I installed the extension and it worked pretty good!

Regards!

[4commerce]

Also, what would happen if Joomla (oper source) fix this issue in a future version and I don't need the extension anymore and I decide to uninstall it?... will I lost all the URLs that I've created?

Theoretically no. This assumes that you don't use a SEF extension to modify the alias of an article. So for example if your url goes from "site/menu-item/id-article-alias" to "site/menu-item/article-alias" and then you have the extension removed once Joomla has this natively, then the url structure should be exactly the same.

Very useful explanation...!

Regards!

[ShibumiDesign]

Could you not create an override in your templates folder?

edit - tried copying router.php from my root/components/com_content folder into my templates/my_template/html/com_content folder of my template and made the changes, does not work...

This would in effect avoid the changes from being overwritten with every Joomla core update, would it not?

edit - I tested out this method (steps 1 and 2) and it works - but only for alias' with 2 words or more... for example:

cat/subcat/article-alias will work, dropping the article id, BUT...
cat/subcat/article does NOT work at all.

Is there some reason that single word aliases without the article id break the link yet multiple word aliases without the article id work?

[Josh Lewis]

Indeed a new version of that file will need to be created when Joomla 3.4 comes out next month. And yes you will need to over ride the file with each upgrade. A lot of changes have been made to Joomla's router with the new update including a incremental for automatic alias's when a duplicate one already exists. In other words it should theoretically allow to people to easily create an article "I love Joomla". The second article should be something like "i-love-joomla-1" as the alias. Once Joomla 3.5 comes out we should have id-less urls once and for all. I'm only using the mod mentioned earlier on a site that does not need to keep up with every single upgrade of Joomla.