Clean URLs

[PeterLawrence]

Just wondering if there are any plans to introduce support for clean URLs into Tinyportal?
For example instead of http://index.php?page=MyArticle a web address such as http://index.php/Article/MyArticle could be used instead.
This kind of thing is supported by other content management systems  such as Wordpress and Drupal on Apache servers.

I found this article http://brian.moonspot.net/2007/10/04/forcetype-for-nice-urls-with-php/  which explains how to do this for Apache servers.

You need to create a php file with an appropriate filename (i.e "article") note the file extension is not required.

Code Select Expand

<?php
   /* parse the URL */
   $expl = explode("/",$HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REQUEST_URI"]);
   $article_id = $expl[count($expl)-1];
   $arg_count = count($expl);

   /* if the right number of parameters send to smf */
   if ($arg_count == 3)
   {
       $_GET['page'] = $expl[count($expl)-1];
       include 'index.php';
   }
   else
   {
      header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
      header('Status: 404 Not Found');
     exit();
   }
?>

And then add the following to the .htaccess file

Code Select Expand

<FilesMatch "^article$">
   ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

An alternative method is to use the .htaccess command RewriteRule.

The above code is only an initial prototype so any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks

[bloc]

I have certainly been thinking about it

I do have a site I am trying out exactly that. Instead of "site.com/index.php/page,23.html" which is the SMF way, I currently have "site.com/page/23.html" which is better to read and remember. But it has its bugs still, so I need to work more on it.

[eldacar]

You can use my Pretty URLs mod, with the Extras package which has support for TP articles.

http://code.google.com/p/prettyurls/downloads/list

[PeterLawrence]

An interesting mod.
However, it does have the problem of hiding subfolders if the board/topic option is used.
Maybe you should add the following to the .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
which may solve this problem.

Also it would be nice if TP returned the 404 error if an article is not found.