History: SEFURLs

Intro
Have you ever wanted your TikiWiki site to have friendly URLs? Well here is one solution to that problem!

Details
Whilst squatting in the channel #tikiwiki as usual. A fellow Tikier brought interest to this link: http://www.coofercat.com/2003/00000010.html an excellent article which describes the use of Smarty output filtering and Apache Rewrite Rules to make TikiWiki produce and work with Search Engine Friendly URLs.

Other Interesting Places

• TikiWikiRewriteRule - Examples
• URL Rewriting Guide

Notes: I havent copy/pasted the article here, because of possible copyrights and Ralph Bolton doesnt indicate what kind of license he publishes his site under

Damian: Ive played with this output filter and its good, for me I'll prefer to change it slightly more to my preferred liking. I'll try and get a wiki page updated with details once I tailored it. Probably commit to mods.tw.o site. as its useless for people on shared hosting who cant setup apache rewrite rules.

UserPagecoofercat (aka Ralph Bolton 😊: I too am planning something a bit cleverer than the very basic thing I did a while back (linked above). I reckon the output filter can use a database table of regexes, rather than have cheesy hardcoded expressions. I'd also like to see it do proper HTML parsing to pull out the a-hrefs and img-src links properly. It would need some corresponding input filter. I'd like a bit of PHP there, but may have to resort to Apache mod_rewrite instead. Either way, it should result in a nicely configurable solution, possibly a candidate for proper inclusion into the Tiki product.