How best to create short code redirect in EE?

#1 / Nov 18, 2014 1:07pm
Eric N
28 posts
We currently have all the entries to use the URL title and not the entry ID. However, these get long obviously and can be a pain when tweeting etc.

I was thinking a short code set up would be simple, but maybe I’m missing the obvious there.

I’m thinking something like
```
<a href="http://www.site.com/short/123445">http://www.site.com/short/123445</a>
```
that would look up the channel and URL title and redirect as appropriate to something like
```
<a href="http://www.site.com/news/some-super-long-title-for-an-article-or-blog">http://www.site.com/news/some-super-long-title-for-an-article-or-blog</a>
```
Anyone able to point me in the right direction? I looked at the redirect tag but that just redirects to a template correct?

Thanks for any help!

#2 / Nov 19, 2014 6:47am

Giraffentoast

152 posts

Yeah, that’s quite possible via embed or redirect. 😊

Just create a template at /short/index and do something like:

{exp:channel:entries entry_id="{segment_2}" dynamic="no" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination"}

    {redirect='{channel_short_name}/{url_title}'}

{/exp:channel:entries}

#3 / Nov 19, 2014 10:03am

Eric N

28 posts

Perfect thanks! Its exactly how I thought it should of been.. I should of tested first!

I had to modify a little because my templates don’t all match my channel names and threw the 301 code in there as well.

I think the last if error catch isn’t needed, but it can’t hurt.

{exp:channel:entries channel="public|premium" status="open|featured"  entry_id="{segment_2}" dynamic="no" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination"}
{if no_results}
  {redirect="site/index" status_code="301"}
{/if}
 {if channel_short_name=="public"}
  {redirect="news/{url_title}" status_code="301"}
 {if:elseif channel_short_name=="premium"}
  {redirect="premium/{url_title}" status_code="301"}
 {if:else}
  {redirect="site/index" status_code="301"}
 {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

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