[Syncato-general] Cruft free url's
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From: darryl <dev...@cs...> - 2004-05-18 19:15:13
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Thinking outloud: The ability to key off of the post title greatly reduces the cruft of the url's of syncato. However, the ability to drop the extension like .item or .page would be better (never satisfied is he?). So, how to do this? It seems to me we're testing the pathInfo to see if it's the front page and then using that to set the default template: frontPage = 0 # Determine whether this is the front page or not if (not(pathInfo) or pathInfo == "/" or pathInfo == ""): frontPage = 1 So if we have a pathInfo like: /my_silly_post With no extension we could also set a default 'item' template. Further to that since my longer titles are yielding unfriendly url's I was thinking of adding a <slug> or <url> to key off instead of the <title>. So: My_really_long_and_detailed_title Could be: detailed_title Of course the <url>'s would have to be database wide unique. -darryl -- http://randomthoughts.vandorp.ca/WK/blog |