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[thedustud]

Is there a way to add the comic title to the url? Right now each comic is ?id=1, but it would be nice to have a the comic title in there as well. Is that a feature already and I missed it or could you hack something together using the {{title}} code? Thanks!

[SteveH]

The only way ComicCMS recognises comics is by their ID, so the ID has to be in the URL somewhere. This is to do with the super-efficient cache system.

You can always add more stuff into the URL that ComicCMS will just ignore. The easiest thing to do would just be to change the links to:
http:///?id={{comic_id}}&title={{comic_title}}

This isn't perfect though, it is not properly URL encoded so if you have any symbols in your titles it may go a bit iffy. To fix that, edit lib/site/template.php, around line 553, just after a line starting with case 'md5' and before the line starting with // put in:

Code:

case 'urlencode': return urlencode($return); break;

Now you can use:
http:///?id={{comic_id}}&title={{comic_title:urlencode}}

[lonelyfetus]

I think he's talking permalinks. It would be nice to have http://comicsite/id/comictitle/ !

[SteveH]

That can be done in the same way, but with some modifications to your .htaccess file, if your server supports it.

Something along the lines of:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([.]+)([\/]?)$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]

[jamboree]

I'm using something similar:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /$1/ [R]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1.php [L]

I'm new to it, so it took a lot of trial and error.

First line redirects http://url/id to http://url/id/
Second line points http://url/id/ to http://url/index.php?id=id
The last line makes the php files look like they have an html extension.

I got burned out before my last task, which was to have http://url/admin/ return error 404, and have an arbitrary url point to http://url/admin/