I have a client who wants to recreate the current site to the letter, using EE. Unfortunately this includes the URL structure, too. While having templates named “something.php” looks akward, it works. Not so on an article level, however. I am looking for a way to get

where url_title.php would be the actual url_title of the article, only EE always removes the dot when saving. Any ideas? Willing to hack if need be.

You could hack to allow it, though I’m puzzled by the insistence on leaving .php when the new publishing system will not demand it.  Why do they want their site’s technology to be disclosed so blatantly when it’s not necessary.  Aaaanyhoo:

In core.regex.php, create_url_title() function, you’ll need to remove the \. from the $trans array (both if the separator type might change down the road), as well as cp.publish.php, the liveUrlTitle() JavaScript function’s NewText.replace() statement.

And you already know this, but for the benefit of others coming across this thread, hacks are not supported. :-D

Derek Jones - 12 May 2007 04:06 PM

You could hack to allow it, though I’m puzzled by the insistence on leaving .php when the new publishing system will not demand it.

Ah, there you have me. I am only sub-contracted to develop certain aspects of the site, though, mainly implementing the simple commerce module and doing some server fu, so in this case it is slightly above my pay grade to question the client’s motives too much. I have advised, they did not heed it, I implement. Yes, I get paid by the hour.

In core.regex.php, create_url_title() function

Thank you. I knew that, in theory, but didn’t find it right away and also wanted to make sure.

And you already know this, but for the benefit of others coming across this thread, hacks are not supported. :-D

Oh, I do know, and I hate them, too. Which is what got me thinking last night: perhaps using mod_rewrite is a more upwards compatible solution. Only if that approach fails will I actually resort to this hack. Thanks again, Derek.

OK, that actually worked. For posteriority’s sake, here’s my partial .htaccess:

In the template I then simply use:

Huzzah for sneakiness!

Nice little rewrite rule. Think I’ll copy that down for possible future use.

Hello,

Is this an issue that is beig addressed in the 1.65 release or the 2.0 release, or does it have to be handled through the .htaccess file as your pointed out?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Best,

Justin

Periods will be allowed in URL titles beginning with version 1.6.5.