How to use unnatural id's (page ids) in URLs?

[saml]

This might sound backwards in terms of SEO optimizations, but we have a use case where we would prefer using unnatural ids (such as the page id) for certain page types.

I was wondering how I would most easily implement that? Is there a module for customizing url path behavior, or some simple setting somewhere?

Have googled / browsed around a bit but couldn't find it mentioned anywhere how to go about this.

[Soma]

Keyword would be most likely urlsegments.

[adrian]

Does this do what you are looking for?

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/process-redirect-ids/

[saml]

  On 4/5/2014 at 7:39 PM, adrian said:

Does this do what you are looking for?

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/process-redirect-ids/

Many thanks! it seems  this module might be able to solve the problem for us, although, we will probably want to just use the id-based urls as is, without redirecting to the full urls, but maybe that is configurable anyway?

[adrian]

There is an option in the module config settings for that - it's called Redirect Type: Redirect vs Load. You'll want the load option. Just an FYI - the modules automatically adds a canonical link to the full url to help search engines.

[saml]

  On 4/7/2014 at 2:23 PM, adrian said:

There is an option in the module config settings for that - it's called Redirect Type: Redirect vs Load. You'll want the load option. 

Perfect, thanks!

[Soma]

One way without module would be to just enbale urlSegments on home/root template.

Then do create urls with 

domain.com/1003

Then in the template something like this:

if($input->urlSegment1){
   $id = (int) $input->urlSegment1;
   $p = $pages->get("id=$id, include=hidden"); 
   if($p && $p->id && $p->viewable()) {
      echo $p->render();
   } else {
     throw new Wire404Exception();
   }
} else if(count($input->urlSegments) > 1) {
   throw new Wire404Exception();
}