Custom URLs - Getting example.com/somename

[Vineet Sawant]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a project where people can create their own pages on the site. 

Whenever anyone registers, a page with same name as username is created.

Currently I'm having set up as follows:

Home

- Profiles

- - somename

- - someothername

But what I need is people should be able to get a URL of their own such as example.com/somename

Is there any way I can have example.com/profiles/somename to display example.com/somename?

I suppose this has something to do with Hooks & routing but I'm no expert so I guess you guys can help.

And happy new year to all of you.

Thanks.

[Soma]

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/1799-routes-and-rewriting-urls/

If you search a little more there's a couple threads about this subject.

[Vineet Sawant]

@Soma Thanks, you are very fast!

Actually I was reading the same article before I posted, but I didn't understand how it can solve my query. Nevermind, I'm already reading some more documentation about routing.

This clarifies one thing for me and that's routing is something I must be looking for to solve this issue!

[Soma]

Some more

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3275-hide-parent-page-from-url/

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4725-remove-part-of-url-with-htaccess/

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2984-controlling-page-url-structure/

[Vineet Sawant]

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

For some reason, this code is not working for me. u_profile is the template of the profile page.

[ryan]

Make sure that you are putting that code somewhere that gets executed on every request, and before any code that needs to use it. Also, attaching the hook to $pages may be the problem in your case, because Pages is different from Page in terms of the underlying PHP classes. A better approach would be this:

wire()->addHookAfter('Page::path', null, 'hookPagePath'); 

[Vineet Sawant]

Make sure that you are putting that code somewhere that gets executed on every request, and before any code that needs to use it. Also, attaching the hook to $pages may be the problem in your case, because Pages is different from Page in terms of the underlying PHP classes. A better approach would be this:

wire()->addHookAfter('Page::path', null, 'hookPagePath'); 

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for the code.

Can you please check following code and tell me why it's not working for me?

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

If it helps you to understand, I've page structure as follows:

//example.com/profiles/apple

where 'apple' has template 'u_profile'.

I've placed above code in head.inc before any other code. Still //example.com/apple/ gives me 404 error.

[Soma]

Can you clarify 'not working' ?

If you do echo a url of a page with the template what do you get?

Also sometimes a exit; in your method can help see if its really getting called.

[Soma]

Ah just read end of post again.. mobile.

So just to clarify. This hook only modifies the url returned from a $page->url. Not handle the request of that url. You only half way there. To catch that url which doesn't exist you would need enable url segments on home template and write a handler in template file. Check for first segment and if a name found render that page instead. For any other you throw a 404.