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URL handling issue
10 March 2010 at 11:30am
I am trying to pass a parameter containing a forward slash to a controller, but it seems that the request is never making it to the controller when the forward slash is encoded. For example:
http://www.domain.org/controller/action/this%2Fthat/
returns a "Page not found" error page, while:
http://www.domain.org/controller/action/something-else/
works just fine.
I cannot debug this with ?debug_request=1 as it does not seem to work on this URL either. Seems like a bug... Any ideas?
Thanks,
David -
Re: URL handling issue
16 March 2010 at 11:56am
I think you want to avoid any use of / in your parameters. - is fine, SS will convert - to _ for the action method I believe so /page/action-something will call action_something()
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Re: URL handling issue
16 March 2010 at 12:08pm
Thanks, Willr.
What I'm trying to do, basically, is pass a category name. I'd like to use the name, rather than an id, for SEO reasons. I don't get to pick the category names, so I can't necessarily exclude forward slashes.
It seems that an encoded slash should be acceptable. I guess I will submit a ticket in Trac, but I wanted to check here first, as I figured I had just overlooked something obvious.
Best,
David -
Re: URL handling issue
16 March 2010 at 1:05pm Last edited: 16 March 2010 1:05pm
Rather then just use what the author enters you should generate a valid URL slug and use that as the link. I'm guessing category is a dataobject? If so you can use onBeforeWrite() to add a slug field to your category.
Heres a quick example
<?php
class Category extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
'Title' => 'Varchar(200)',
'Slug' => 'Varchar(200)
...
);
...function onBeforeWrite() {
parent::onBeforeWrite();
if(!$this->Slug) {
$str = strtolower(trim($this->Title)); // use lowercase urls
$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str); // use alphanumeric values only
$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
$this->Slug = $str;
}
}
...}
Now you have a $Slug field which gives a more reliable result then using a title which is defined in the cms.
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