Url Alias question

Friday 17 July 2009 5:02:00 am

Hi. I've got a question about url_alias. Suppose i have an article under a structure like this

then i do an url_alias so if a user types only 'article' he will get that article under that structure.

But, while doing a fetch, content, list under folder5, is there any way to show url_alias and not the entire path to the article? i mean, suppose folder5 has node_id = 100.
if i do

{$articles = fetch('content', 'listh', hash('parent_node_id', 100)}
{foreach $articles as $article}
<a href={$article.url_alias|ezurl()}>{$article.name}</a>
{/foreach}

url_alias is always like

folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/article

but i would like to find a way to show the new url alias created for that node... is there any easy way to do this?

thanks.

Friday 17 July 2009 5:31:06 am

Hi Max.

I don't really know if i really understand your question. Maybe my first post is not really clear.

what i want is:

If something types http://myhost/article in browser, he will showed the article at http://myhost/folder1/.../folder5/article. i don't want 301 redirection, so i choose 'direct type'.

Then, while listing the articles under folder5 i want that href will look like
<a href="/article">... and not <a href="/folder1/folder2/.../folder5/article">

if i use {$node.url_alias|ezurl} i always get that long path, and i would like to show the url_alias i've created for that deep node.

It's a question about usability and seo... i mean, suppose i have something like

news
------sports
-----------basketball
-----------------------nba.

then i create an url_alias. if something types nba he will be showed that deep node. for everybody it will be easy to remenber something like http://myhost/nba than http://myhost/news/sports/basketball/nba

but if tell other websites to link me at http://myhost/nba, having in my own listing things like http://myhost/news/sports/basketball/nba, spiders may think about duplicated content...

Friday 17 July 2009 11:12:31 am

Hi Gaetano.

Your solution seems to be the better one. i will have to implement some kind of workflow to add a location to the object after it is published.

i was looking for a way to do some kinda

{$node.my_custom_url_alias|ezurl()}

being that my_custom_url_alias the one i added, but this doesn't seem to be easy.

i will go for two locations for the objects. thanks.