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Is it possible to have this nice URL hierarchy like this?
I need to change "-number" pages (for example: from /2006/program-1 to /2006/program).

festivatpagesexample.com/2005/info
festivatpagesexample.com/2005/program
festivatpagesexample.com/2005/contact
festivatpagesexample.com/2006/info
festivatpagesexample.com/2006/program
festivatpagesexample.com/2006/contact
festivatpagesexample.com/2007/info
festivatpagesexample.com/2007/program
festivatpagesexample.com/2007/contact

and so on....

Hello,

anything wrong with the hierarchy option of the pretty URLs ?
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... l_Settings

Pierre M.

The problem is if you name more than one page the same the alias is automatically give it a number according to how many there are already so his program pages will start getting -1, -2, -3, on the end after the first one and I don't think alias will let him change it and take the change...

I know that.
So my question should be - is it possible to have same alias (some hack?) to different pages?
Location of these pages are different, so if I use hierarchy path is different too.

...but pages are selected (example.com/2005/program -> program, example.com/2006/program -> program)  only from the last item in hierarchy URL

I think, it's possible to do some moderewriting (for example: /2005/program to alias 2005-program) , but it's not clean solution and I can't use it in autogenerated menus.

lukas123 wrote: I know that.
So my question should be - is it possible to have same alias (some hack?) to different pages?
Location of these pages are different, so if I use hierarchy path is different too.

...but pages are selected (example.com/2005/program -> program, example.com/2006/program -> program)  only from the last item in hierarchy URL

I think, it's possible to do some moderewriting (for example: /2005/program to alias 2005-program) , but it's not clean solution and I can't use it in autogenerated menus.

pages are specified solely by their alias... the unrewritten url's of pages are simply ./index.php?page=page-alias

to support duplicate page aliases, i had the idea of using hierarchy instead, e.g. ./index.php?page=parent/page-alias - each page would still have an alias, but would no longer need to be unique. how pages are referred to internally and in URLs would need core changes, and i had submitted a feature request last year with my idea http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 011.0.html but it was shot down before it could get off the ground; something about cmsms relying upon unique page aliases.. which, imho, is rubbish, as there's already another unique field available (content_id) for use internally; AND the new 'full alias' (parent/child derived alias) would still be unique as well.

in the interim (perhaps forever and always), you'll need to use a structure similar to:

2006/2006-program
2006/2006-info
2007/2007-program
2007/2007-info

... like you're using now. you could probably add some manually generated rewrite rules to handle shortened request uri's such as 2006/program, and then hack your menu template to strip out those 'redundant' parts of the urls. an ugly, messy fix for something that should've been "fixed" from the very beginning.

mark wrote: The problem is if you name more than one page the same the alias is ...

Sorry, I hadn't seen the leaves have the same names.
I've seen a post a long time ago (1 year or more) suggesting to have short, webserver-rewriteble aliases :
node1_subnode1_leaf1 rewritten from /node1/subnode1/leaf1.html
node1_subnode1_leaf2 rewritten from /node1/subnode1/leaf2.html
...
node2_subnode1_leaf1 rewritten from /node2/subnode1/leaf1.html
Long unique alias and wanted url hierarchy.
But I'm note sure how intern links (generated by CMSms) (and menus) can stay under this scheme. You may need a rewriting reverse proxy.

Pierre M.