Latest post by sakinho on Tuesday, 24 October 2023 16:22 EEST
1) url like this: domain.com/clothes|shoes
How to replace | by -
domain.com/clothes-shoes
2) slash in field value
Someone asked this problem before. But we have to use slash in the field value. For example, we have to enter 1/2", 3/8".... as field value.
Hi
1. I strongly suggest you NOT to change that for the following reasons.
a. The pipe "|" character is used as delimiter in the urls, to separate values.
By substituting that with a charcter that can be commonly used in your strings, your urls can become non functional (i.e. not return results).
b. This requires a core file hack, which will make your extension NOT updatable.
2. There is no any solution to that atm.
Joomla seem to parse that as a slash (/) even if we encode it and a slash is a reserved URL character.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
Hi
1) In which file I should revise code? I'd like to update this component manually in future. Maybe you could add an option to the backend in coming version.
Ray
components/com_jfilters/src/Service/Router/Rules/FilterRules.php
Line: 33
Of course you aknowledge, that i cannot offer you support of any issue emerged from that change.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
1) I changed protected const PATH_VALUES_DELIMITER = '|'; to protected const PATH_VALUES_DELIMITER = '-';
Work now!
Hope it could be an option in the backend in future version.
2) Regarding slash
I use 4SEF to rewrite the url. 4SEF stripped % from the url. Now worked.
Before adding the label to the url, check if there is special characters in the label and replace them.
Hope it could be an option in the backend in future version.
For the reasons i explaned, we cannot leave that to the user descretion.
Unless someone knows exactly what this is, it can very easily render the entire component useless.
Before adding the label to the url, check if there is special characters in the label and replace them.
This is not an option too.
You cannot get back the original values if you change them on the fly, simply because the changed value is not stored somewhere (like the Joomla aliases).
If you want to have clean values (without special characters), make sure that you save them this way.
Custom field types such as Lists, Radios, Checkboxes, give you the way to create a value and a label for every option.
We use the value in the url and the label in filter labels/texts.
I am closing the ticket as resolved.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer