Search module friendly URLs

[chrisdoug]

Hi all,

Although we have friendly URLs enabled and working throughout our site the search results still display and link in a none friendly manner.

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http://www.domain.co.uk/index.php?mact=Nurseries,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01itemid=1&cntnt01returnid=43

Is it possible to show the search results/links as friendly URLs?

Thank you

[Jo Morg]

Read help from module:

in paramters....
(optional) search_method="get" - Pretty Urls Compatibility via Method POST, default value is always GET, to make this work just put {search search_method="post"}

[chrisdoug]

Sorry, had checked this and parameter is already set to post:

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{search resultpage='search-results' search_method='post' modules='Search,News,Blog,Careers,Event,Nurseries'}

Should have mentioned that in previous post, fairly major! This isn't a site I created just trying to help out. Have delved a little deeper, the long URL is a news item returned in the search results.

The URL returned by the seach module is:

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http://www.domain.co.uk/index.php?mact=Nurseries,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01itemid=1&cntnt01returnid=43

but should be:

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http://www.domain.co.uk/nurseries/1/43/Town-Day-Nursery/

Thank you

Chris


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[Jo Morg]

To be honest I'm not sure that that combination of parameters can be used with pretty URLs. Maybe someone may chime in with more info about this.

[landarone]

Hello there.
Im faceing the same problem.
I have active pretty url and it works fine for CMS links in pages, menus, etc.
When I do search, for example word "Printer" it will find this word in content pages and it gives right results with right URLs (pretty, no more "....index.php?....").
But these search results are correct just only for Content pages not for News pages. When this word "Printer" is also in some News article so search find it and it is also in search results, but with non pretty url.

If its Content page so URL in search result page is:
".....domain.com/products/printers/canon-bex-254/" (pretty)

If its in News article so URL in search result page is:
"....domain.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2&cntnt01returnid=75" (non pretty)

But it should be something like "....domain.com/news/2/76/Canon-bex-launch", because this link I see in summary page for News.

Do you know why Search module gives non pretty url to {$entry->url} and how to make this pretty??
(just for news article link, for every other link it is pretty)

Thank you for advice/help.

[Dr.CSS]

When you click on a New 'more' link does it have pretty URLs in the address bar for the detail page..?

[landarone]

Hello.
If you mean link on News page, where are archived news articles, and each of them has a "more" link ($entry->moreurl) so yes, inside of this link is pretty URL. It work fine there.
I also try to give it to the "Search result template", like {$entry->moreurl} or {$entry->morelink}, but it doesnt work. In this template works only {$entry->url} but if search result is some News article so URL is not pretty (but for another, clasic content pages is there pretty url).
Here is my "Search result template":

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<h3>{$searchresultsfor} "{$phrase}"</h3>
{if $itemcount > 0}
<ul>  
  {foreach from=$results item=entry}
    {*  $string|strpos:$char  *}     
    {if ($entry->url|strpos:'index.php') == true}    
      <li><strong>{$entry->title}</strong> - {$entry->urltxt} <a href="{$entry->url}&searchstring={$phrase}">[...show]</a></li>
    {else}
      <li><strong>{$entry->title}</strong> - {$entry->urltxt} <a href="{$entry->url}?searchstring={$phrase}">[...show]</a></li>
    {/if}    
  {/foreach}
</ul>
{else}
  <p><strong>{$noresultsfound}</strong></p>
{/if}

[landarone]

Update 1:
While I'm testing and trying to find a solution for this issue I found this:
Pretty URL on all site works on 100%. Problem is in Search with results from News module. This module when is called from some page works OK, I see on summary page links with pretty url.
But when I try to search some word or sentence from any News so Search module find it but return URL non pretty - like without "mod_rewrite".
While I was looking into code I found what do this non pretty url results (when I use Search). It is part of code in "modform.inc.php":
[php_code]
......
if ($prettyurl != '' && $config['url_rewriting'] == 'mod_rewrite')
..........
$text .= '/'.$goto.'?mact='.$modinstance->GetName().','.$id.','.$action.','.($inline == true?1:0).$secureparam;
[/php_code]

and from this it seems to me that "$prettyurl" is empty and so system can't give the right url to results ==> instead of pretty url it calls directly module with other params.
What I can't understand is why on summary page is link pretty (in more) so News module is ok with creating pretty url when is called in page.....but when is called from Search it is not capable to return pretty url??
I also try to change "search_method" to "post" instead of default "get". But no diffrence.
So for me it must lay somewhere in bad url return, when is module called non directly from page?

Update 2:
Next interesting fact is that if I fill "URL" field in editing/creating News article so now Search result gives me back pretty URL. What is also interesting is when I give into this URL field something crazy like "blbablab" so Search result give me still right pretty URL but in page with News summary is link now "blbablab" (for more - moreurl).
So now I'm totally confused.