URL structure for child pages

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I have a list of articles, all under the parent 'Articles', however I would like the URL for each to be, for example, www.website.com/this-is-an-article rather than www.website.com/articles/this-is-an-article. Any ideas if this is possible?

[adrian]

Lots of discussion, links and approaches in this thread: 

 

[a-ok]

Thanks adrian. Do you happen to know if this works in 3+? I have the following in ready.php which seems to re-route the URLs but page itself states 404?

<?php

wire()->addHookBefore('Page::path', function($event) {
    $page = $event->object;
    if ($page->template == 'article-detail') {
        $event->replace = true;
        $event->return = "/$page->name/";
    }
});

 

[Robin S]

45 minutes ago, oma said:

I have the following in ready.php which seems to re-route the URLs but page itself states 404?

Have you set up URL segments for the home page template? See Ryan's post where he talks about the home template:

 

[deltavik]

I am on pw 3 and this is the code that works for me. I am new to PW and haven't yet caught up with hooks -- I got this code from somewhere here. 

<?php

$pages->addHookAfter('Page::path', null, 'hookPagePath');
function hookPagePath(HookEvent $e) {
    $page = $e->object;
    if($page->get('template') == 'article') $e->return = "/$page->name/";
}

 

This code that updates the urls is the first half of the redirection game. The other half is about redirecting users to the right article. For that, you will have to use urlsegments. Here are the steps, roughly. 

-- Enable urlsegments for homepage. => This means website.com/this-is-an-article is a hit to the homepage, and this-is-an-article is the first url segment. 
-- Use this url segment to get a handle to the article page object. ==> $pages->get("name=this-is-an-article")
-- Check if its a legit article by checking for the existence of its id.
-- If it's a valid page, redirect the visitor to it. 
   echo $article->render();
   return;

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Thanks everyone!

[a-ok]

Sorry to bring this back up... over 2 years later... but I'm a little stuck.

I'm wanting to run child pages (website.com/brands/this-is-a-brand/) from the root (website.com/this-is-a-brand/) but when using a hook or urlSegments I am getting nowhere with it.

What's the best process to do this? Do I need to enable a urlSegment check on home.php and allow urlSegments?

@Macrura included this and have added it to ready.php but I'm unsure of what's meant to happen?

Any help?

[Macrura]

yes, you need to enable URL Segments on the homepage.

then, if you do the hook, when you click "View Page" from the editor, it should go to the new URL off the root.

So if you have a page that is posts/name-of-page, that would now be

/name-of-page

[a-ok]

Thanks for this, @Macrura

This is fine... and then on my home.php template I included the following at the top before anything else:

	if ($input->urlSegment1) {
  		$name = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment1);
  		$brand = $pages->get("/brands/")->child("name=$name");

  		if ($brand->id) {
			return $brand->render();
		} else {
			throw new Wire404Exception();
		}
	}

This seemed to work... best way of doing it?

[Macrura]

looks correct ?