Removing the discussion name from URLs?

blizeH · October 2014

Hi,

Currently our URLs are in the following format:

site.com/discussion/4/news-and-politics

Due to some people reading the forum at work, they'd like for the discussion not to appear in the URL so that it's hidden from the IT department, so is there anyway to get the discussion looking like this?

site.com/discussion/4/

When I go to that URL it works fine, so I think I just need to figure out how to change the URL that's being created

Thanks

x00 · October 2014

you can predefine DiscussionUrl

Note this has other implications name SEO. if this is not important then fine.
put this in conf/bootstrap.after.php (create the file)

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
function DiscussionUrl($Discussion, $Page = '', $WithDomain = TRUE) {
   $Discussion = (object)$Discussion;
   //$Result = '/discussion/'.$Discussion->DiscussionID.'/'.Gdn_Format::Url($Discussion->Name);
   $Result = '/discussion/'.$Discussion->DiscussionID; //no slug
   if ($Page) {
      if ($Page > 1 || Gdn::Session()->UserID)
         $Result .= '/p'.$Page;
   }
   return Url($Result, $WithDomain);
}

it is not 100% full-proof, as some extension may still not use this function. But for browsing it shoudl work.

Really if they are doing stuff they should do at work, they will likely get found out or the IT dept already knows about it.

blizeH · October 2014

Ah! You're a star, thanks so much x00

Removing the discussion name from URLs?

Comments