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PNphpBB2 and Short-URLs in Zikula 1.1.1

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Abadia

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Posted: Mar 23, 2009 - 10:58 AM

Hello,

I've recently upgraded my PostNuke 0.764 site to Zikula 1.1.1 (at my local computer, not in a production site) and now I have a doubt:

At my PostNuke site, Short-URLs are activated, so the permalinks of the PNphpBB2 forum are like these ones:
Forum main page -> mysite.com/PNphpBB2.html
Sub-Forum main page -> mysite.com/PNphpBB2-viewforum-f-17.html
Post -> mysite.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-6649.html

I have activated the Short-URLs too at the upgraded site (Zikula 1.1.1) but the permalinks of the forum don't change before and after the Short-URLs are working. They are always like these ones:
Forum main page -> mysite.com/PNphpBB2/
Sub-Forum main page -> mysite.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=17
Post -> mysite.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=6649

Is there any way to solve this problem?

Thanks.

PS: I posted this topic at the Zafenio forums 2 days ago, but nobody has answered yet :(
Teb

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Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 08:38 AM

If you use file-based short-urls in your Settings, and make sure the correct .htaccess is copied from /docs to your site root, then this should work out of the box.

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Abadia

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Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 12:20 PM

Thanks for your answer Teb.

I've been using PostNuke since 2002 as a blog platform + a forum. Now, with the upgrade to Zikula, I'd like to have directory generated short-urls for the news and mantain the same kind of short-urls for the forum. Is it possible?
Teb

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Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 08:01 PM

No this is not possible on a per-module basis through a setting or something. It's either / or, not both in this case, unless you completely customize it yourself. There is a wiki page about shorturls that has a link to a forum-post I did earlier, with additional hints about customization.

Remember that you need to edit a .htaccess file (and have some knowledge about mod_rewrite) and writing a outputfilter (knowledge about Smarty)

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Abadia

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Posted: Mar 25, 2009 - 12:33 PM

Thanks for the info Teb. I'm working on it.
Abadia

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Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:44 PM

I've been working on this topic for the last two days and now I have some doubts I hope you can solve. This is what I've done:

As Ted explained at this post, these are the steps I've followed:

Â·I've created an outputfilter.shorturls.php file

Â·Then, I've gone to 'Admin Menu -> Content -> Theme -> I've selected my theme -> Page Configurations' and I've modified the page configuration for home.ini, news.ini, master.ini and forum.ini, writting the outputfilter's name (shorturls) of the file I'd created previously

Â·Finally, I've added some lines of code to the the file 'shorturls.directory.htaccess' located at the '/docs' directory, I've saved it, then I've changed its name to '.htaccess' and I've placed it at the site root

This is the code of the 'outputfilter.shorturls.php' that I've created:

Quote

function smarty_outputfilter_shorturls($source, &$Smarty)
{
$baseurl = pnGetBaseURL();
$type = FormUtil::getPassedValue('type', 'user', 'GETPOST');

$extension = pnConfigGetVar('shorturlsext');
$prefix = '|"(?:'.$baseurl.')?';
$entrypoint = pnConfigGetVar('entrypoint', 'index.php');

$in = array(
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=index"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|'
);

$out = array(
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6-$7.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6-$7-$8-$9.'.$extension.'"'
);

$source = preg_replace($in, $out, $source);

return $source;
}

?>

And these are the lines I've added to the '.htaccess' file:

Quote

# PNphpBB2 forums
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=index [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5&$6=$7 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.html$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5&$6=$7&$8=$9 [L,NC,NS]

I suppose that I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know exactly what. Any idea?

Thanks in advance.
Teb

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Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 01:57 PM

I did almost the same thing just a few hours ago, wanting to know if it worked. And it did! So, the steps you did were exactly as I have pictured them.

(Almost) the only difference is that I renamed my plugin differently (besides on extra if-statement, and additional rules for urls with page-anchors). So, change your filename from "outputfilter.shorturls.php" to "outputfilter.customurls.php". Change the function-name to function smarty_outputfilter_customurls in the file accordingly, and change the call from 'shorturls' to 'customurls' in your themes' pageconfigurations.

The placement of the rewrite-rules is quite crucial. You should place this section of rules above "# General rules for modules with index.php?name=...". Also, the second rule in your .htaccess can be removed, as apache's rewritemodule will never get there (it is the same as the line above it).

For completeness, I pasted my code for PNphpBB2 below:

.htaccess
# General rules for PNphpBB2
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2\+([^-]+)\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&req=$1 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5 [L,NC,NS]
RewriteRule ^PNphpBB2-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.p?HTML?$ index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=$1&$2=$3&$4=$5&$6=$7 [L,NC,NS]

outputfilter.customurls.php
function smarty_outputfilter_customurls($source, &$Smarty)
{
// If you control the server, it is preferable for better performance to put rewrite rules
// from the htaccess file into main configuration file, httpd.conf.

// get the site's base uri, eg /nuke/ for root-relative links
$baseurl = pnGetBaseURL();
$type = FormUtil::getPassedValue('type', 'user', 'GETPOST');

if (pnConfigGetVar('shorturlstype') == 1 && $type !== 'admin' && !stristr(pnServerGetVar('QUERY_STRING'), 'admin')) {
$extension = pnConfigGetVar('shorturlsext');
$prefix = '|"(?:'.$baseurl.')?';
$entrypoint = pnConfigGetVar('entrypoint', 'index.php');

$in = array(
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2[#]([\w\d]*)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=index"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=index[#]([\w\d]*)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)[#]([\w\d]*)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)[#]([\w\d]*)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)[#]([\w\d]*)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)"|',
$prefix . $entrypoint . '\?name=PNphpBB2&(?:amp;)?file=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)&(?:amp;)?([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)=([\w\d\.\:\_\/]+)[#]([\w\d]*)"|'
);

$out = array(
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'#$1"',
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2.'.$extension.'#$1"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1.'.$extension.'#$2"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3.'.$extension.'#$4"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5.'.$extension.'#$6"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6-$7.'.$extension.'"',
'"PNphpBB2-$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6-$7.'.$extension.'#$8"'
);

// perform the replacement
$source = preg_replace($in, $out, $source);
}
// return the (modified) source
return $source;
}

edited by: Teb, Mar 28, 2009 - 02:59 AM

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Abadia

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Posted: Mar 28, 2009 - 03:57 AM

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So, change your filename from "outputfilter.shorturls.php" to "outputfilter.customurls.php". Change the function-name to function smarty_outputfilter_customurls in the file accordingly, and change the call from 'shorturls' to 'customurls' in your themes' pageconfigurations.

THIS was the problem. Now everything works fine

Thanks Teb
Abadia

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 03:01 AM

Hello,

I've finished the upgrading process from PostNuke 0.764 to Zikula 1.1.1 and everything works ok except one thing. As I explained previously into the first posts of this thread, I've been using PN as a blog platform + a forum for many years and I want to do the same with ZK.

At my PostNuke site, I use short-URLs and the permalinks of the PNphpBB2 forum are like these ones:
Â· Forum main page -> mysite.com/forums.html
Â· Sub-Forum main page -> mysite.com/forums-viewforum-f-17.html
Â· Post -> mysite.com/forums-viewtopic-t-6649.html

I want to preserve this kind of permalinks and use directory based short-URLs for the rest of the site, so I followed the instructions of Teb and I created an outputfilter and modified the .htaccess file. I thought that everything worked fine, but now I discovered a problem related to the permalinks of the PNphpBB2 forum that I don't understand.

I've made a little summary:
Â· With short-URLs not activated -> permalinks of the forum work ok
Â· With file short-URLs activated -> permalinks of the forum work ok
Â· With directory short-URLs activated and selecting PNphpBB2 as the "module to use when permalink contains no module name" ('Settings' menu at the administration panel) -> permalinks of the forum work ok
Â· With directory short-URLs activated and selecting News as the "module to use when permalink contains no module name" (this is the configuration I want to use at my website) -> permalinks of the forum doesn't work and:
a) If the permalinks are like "http://mysite.com/forums-viewtopic-p-27842.html" (it's just an example) the system shows an error into the "master.html" template instead of the "PNphpBB2.html" template
b) If the permalinks are like "http://mysite.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-p-27842.html" the error apears into the "PNphpBB2.html" template

The error is this one (I've activated the 'development' mode at config.php as Mateo has told me):

Quote
Error! Could not do what you wanted. Please check your input. in [News_user_display] at line 378 in file /public_html/modules/News/pnuser.php.

One more thing: with directory short-URLs activated, if I select, for example, 'Pages' insted of 'News' as the "module to use when permalink contains no module name", when I try to enter the forum, this is the message that appears:

Quote
Error! Could not do what you wanted. Please check your input. in [pages_userapi_get] at line 128 in file /public_html/modules/Pages/pnuserapi.php.

Do you know why these messages appear, why are showed only in some circumstances and in different templates depending of the words I use in the permalinks of the forum?

Thanks.

edited by: Abadia, Apr 14, 2009 - 04:06 PM
Teb

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Posted: Apr 14, 2009 - 08:31 PM

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I want to preserve this kind of permalinks and use directory based short-URLs for the rest of the site, so I followed the instructions of Teb and I created an outputfilter and modified the .htaccess file.

My instructions were solely based on the setting of file-based short-urls. I am having doubts if it is even possible to combine file- and directory-based urls, since most of directory-based short-urls is handled internal in the system, and not just a rewrite of the output / input.

You should first make sure that directory-based short-urls work as desired for your News and Pages module, without any additional filters. IIRC, the urls for PNphpBB2 are not rewritten in this case (old-style module urls, but this might change for future versions of Zafenio). So, it might be possible to activate the outputfilter afterwards. Be sure to remove the pnConfigGetVar('shorturlstype') == 1 check from the outputfilter. Then add the specific lines to a working (empty?) .htaccess file.

Not guaranteed to work...

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Abadia

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Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 11:19 AM

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My instructions were solely based on the setting of file-based short-urls.

Ups, I misunderstood you. At the third post of this topic I specified that I wanted to use directory short-urls, so I thought you were talking about the same kind of short-urls.

Quote
You should first make sure that directory-based short-urls work as desired for your News and Pages module, without any additional filters. IIRC, the urls for PNphpBB2 are not rewritten in this case (old-style module urls, but this might change for future versions of Zafenio). So, it might be possible to activate the outputfilter afterwards.

The News and Pages modules work fine with directory based short-urls. PNphpBB2, with the outputfilter and .htaccess files I've modified, also works fine but only if I select PNphpBB2 as the "module to use when permalink contains no module name" at 'Admin -> Settings' menu. If I select any other module, ZK shows the error messages I specified at the above post.

Quote
Be sure to remove the pnConfigGetVar('shorturlstype') == 1 check from the outputfilter. Then add the specific lines to a working (empty?) .htaccess file.

The outputfilter I've been using during the last weeks is the one I've posted at the sixth post (the one without the 'if' statement).

I think it's obvious that the system doesn't recognize the PNphpBB2 permalinks that I'm passing to it, so today I've modified the outputfilter and .htaccess files adding the term "PNphpBB2/" at the beginning of the permalinks, but ZK still gives me the same error messages.

Any idea on what I have to do?

Thanks.

edited by: Abadia, Apr 16, 2009 - 12:21 AM