Friendly URLs

[Kal]

Is there a way to get Blesta to generate friendlier URLs? I'm thinking of the Knowledge Base in particular.

Instead of this:

https://blesta.example.com/plugin/support_manager/knowledgebase/view/6/testing-your-website-before-it-goes-live/5/

I'd like to have something like this:

https://blesta.example.com/knowledgebase/testing-your-website-before-it-goes-live

[qba82]

+1

[Paul]

12 hours ago, Kal said:

Is there a way to get Blesta to generate friendlier URLs? I'm thinking of the Knowledge Base in particular.

Instead of this:

https://blesta.example.com/plugin/support_manager/knowledgebase/view/6/testing-your-website-before-it-goes-live/5/

I'd like to have something like this:

https://blesta.example.com/knowledgebase/testing-your-website-before-it-goes-live

I believe this is possible by creating a route, similar to the order manager which uses /order/ instead of /plugin/order/ See https://docs.blesta.com/display/user/Configuration+Files#ConfigurationFiles-routes.php for details. If you need help, creating the route, one of our devs may be able to help. It wouldn't hurt if we had some common examples in our docs anyway.

[qba82]

Knowledge base urls should be shorter, and additionally it should allow longer titles of any article in url.

For example now any title longer then approximately 45 signs is cut in url.

[Deactivat3d]

Working example would be great

[Kal]

On 8/26/2020 at 9:27 AM, Paul said:

I believe this is possible by creating a route, similar to the order manager which uses /order/ instead of /plugin/order/ See https://docs.blesta.com/display/user/Configuration+Files#ConfigurationFiles-routes.php for details. If you need help, creating the route, one of our devs may be able to help. It wouldn't hurt if we had some common examples in our docs anyway.

Thanks for the info about routes.php. I can see from the code, for example, how `/admin/settings/company/general/localization/` really points to `/admin_company_general/localization/`. By the same logic, `/admin/plugin/support_manager/admin_knowledgebase/` should point to `/support_manager/admin_knowledgebase/`, but trying to load that second URL in a browser doesn't work—so I guess there's something I'm not getting about how it works.

Anyway, I suspect I can't achieve what I want with routes, because the table row IDs for knowledge base articles are essential parts of the URLs. Ideally, I'd like the option of having human-readable and platform-agnostic URLs like this:

https://account.example.com/help/docs/article-title

I don't like that the URLs include table row IDs, which don't reflect anything meaningful, only what order I created the articles. That kind of thing should be hidden from the user IMHO.

[Kal]

I've now made this a feature request: Friendly URLs (permalinks).

[turner2f]

I voted on it.

Been wanting this.

[Blesta Addons]

this not a smlall task, it need some work and edit in the support plugin, first it need a slug field to map the url. we have made this in a private/custom plugin for a client . also our Cms Pro plugin (not yet released has this built in feature).

finally +1 for this request

[turner2f]

On 8/25/2020 at 7:27 PM, Paul said:

I believe this is possible by creating a route, similar to the order manager which uses /order/ instead of /plugin/order/ See https://docs.blesta.com/display/user/Configuration+Files#ConfigurationFiles-routes.php for details. If you need help, creating the route, one of our devs may be able to help. It wouldn't hurt if we had some common examples in our docs anyway.

 

@Paul

Are there any plans to implement the " Friendly URL's" into a future release of Blesta ?

1)- This way the url is not revealing the Blesta plugins or modules that are being used.

2) - Plus, it just looks more clean and professional.

 

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[turner2f]

Is this going to be considered in an update ?

Already created a request for it .