Accented characters in URL and 404 error

[nervino]

I've upgraded an old cmsms site (1.10) to cmsms 2.1.3. In this site I had a module where I handled pretty urls in this way:

MyModule.module.php:

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function InitializeFrontend() {

// All
$this->RegisterRoute('/[MyModule\/(?P<IDart>[0-9-]+)_(?P<returnid>[0-9]+)_l(?P<filter_loc>[0-9]+)_t(?P<filter_tipo>[0-9]+)\/(?P<order_by>[a-z]+)\/(?P<filter_period>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)\/(?P<aliased_title>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)$/',array('action'=>'art_detail'));

//only with order_by
$this->RegisterRoute('/[MyModule\/(?P<IDart>[0-9-]+)_(?P<returnid>[0-9]+)\/(?P<order_by>[a-z]+)\/(?P<aliased_title>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)$/',array('action'=>'art_detail'));

etc...

and I create pretty urls in action.default.php like so:

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$aliased_title = munge_string_to_url($row['Title'],true);

In new CMSMS 2.x accented characters are allowed, hence my urls have them, but those links lead to a 404 error.

I'm not able to find the reason why. Could someone give suggestions about this issue?

I also tried to use the method used in News module:

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$route = new CmsRoute('/[MyModule\/(?P<IDart>[0-9-]+)_(?P<returnid>[0-9]+)_l(?P<filter_loc>[0-9]+)_t(?P<filter_tipo>[0-9]+)\/(?P<order_by>[a-z]+)\/(?P<filter_period>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)\/(?P<aliased_title>[A-Za-z0-9-]+)$/',array('action'=>'art_detail'));
    cms_route_manager::add_dynamic($route);

but it works only if use it for one url; if I use this method for routing all pretty urls I always got 404 errors.

Furthermore (please have pity) which is the convenience of using add_static vs add_dynamic routes ?

Thank you

[Jeff]

My guess the problem is that Accented chars don't fall into A-Za-z, I am not familiar with them enough to how to include them. Maybe google search "regex accented characters".

Do you need the aliased title from the url? In my modules I have the title in the URL for SEO but in the route I copy what News does and put it in junk with "\/(?P<junk>.*?)$/" and ignore it.

Registering your routes statically allow your module to be lazy loaded (only loaded when it is actually called on the page) and has less overhead for each individual page load. If you have a small module and/or use only a few generic regex route it probably won't be a noticeable difference.