TomatoCMS supports beautiful, friendly URLs that are good for SEO.
But by default the URL has the format of /module/action/id/another_id which should be more descriptive.
Now, this dream are coming true because in 2.0.7.1, you can configure the URL for all front-end URLs easily.
It is easy to use if you have been using Wordpress.
Below is the screenshot that give you idea how it look like:
For each page, you can use the default URL, one of pre-define URLs or customize by yourself.
In case you use the custom URL, you don't have to worry about wrong parameters because the tool suggests the valid parameter based on your input characters.
If you are developer and want to use this feature for your module
This tool is part of core module. It means that you can integrate your module to this easily.
All you have to do is configure your routes.
For example, if you want the system to allows the user to customize the URL of article details pages, here is what you have to do:
1) Open the route configuration file
2) Add the following lines to your routes:
(The sample code below are taken from /application/modules/news/config/news.ini)
- Enable permalink:
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routes.RouteName.permalink.enable = "true"
- Configure the parameters: define the parameter names, its type:
(The article Id is required)
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routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.article_id.name = "article_id"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.article_id.regex = "(\d+)"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.article_id.reverse = "%d"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.article_id.required = "true"
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routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.slug.name = "slug"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.slug.regex = "([\w-_]+)"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.slug.reverse = "%s"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.params.slug.required = "false"
- Define the default URL and pre-defines URL:
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routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.default = "news/article/view/{category_id}/{article_id}"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.predefined[] = "news/{article_id}-{slug}.html"
routes.RouteName.defaults.permalink.predefined[] = "news/{year}/{month}/{article_id}-{slug}.html"
You can look at the file /application/modules/news/config/routes/news.ini from SVN for full of configurations.
That's all.
It can not be easier than that, right?
