Using Tagcloud snippet with AjaxSearch 1.9.0

Hi, my first post here, thanks for a great forum and brilliant CMS.

Simple one I think? I had the TagCloud snippet from modx extras working previously prior to AjaxSearch 1.9 but now can’t get the links from the cloud to work.

So the code which originally worked for 1.8.5 was

http://www.example.com/search-results.html&AS_search=TagWord

I’ve tried changing it for 1.9.0 to

http://www.example.com/search-results.html&search=TagWord

but get a page not found error

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

It’s work without a friendly url. For instance try http://www.modx2.wangba.fr/index.php?id=39&search=loi. But you are right, it doesn’t run with a friendly url.
But It doesn’t run with AS 1.8.5 too.

Could you post your how is set up your .htaccess file with the version 1.8.5 ?

It may be that having switched hosts to a windows install of modx maybe the problem. Thanks It does work when not using friendly urls.
Below is the htaccess file:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.48

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCompatibility2 On
RepeatLimit 32
RewriteBase

# Block external access to the httpd.ini and httpd.parse.errors files
RewriteRule ^/httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors).*$ / [NC,F,O]
# Block external access to the Helper ISAPI Extension
RewriteRule ^.*\.isrwhlp$ / [NC,F,O]

RewriteRule ^/(?!(?:manager|assets)/)(.*)\.html(?:\?(.*))?$ /index.php?q=$1?2&$2: [NC,L,U]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond Host: (?!www\.)(.+)
RewriteRule (.+) http\://www.example.com$1 [I,RP]

I’ve found on IIS6 with furl’s the first character after.html needs to be an ?
If an & is used it causes a 404 error.

That is the case with any server. Some are just more forgiving about it than others.

With friendly URLs, you need to use a ? for your first custom query string pair:

mypage.html?key=value&key2=value2

But without friendly URLs you cannot use a ? because it’s already in use

index.php?id=42&key=value&key2=value2

Thanks all for the swift response. Changing the & to a ? worked

Any snippet that generates links with query string arguments should have a check for whether or not friendly URLs is in use, and set the character to use accordingly. The setting to check for is $modx->config[’friendly_urls’]; if it’s 1 then use ? if it’s 0 then use &.

should do the trick.

Quote from: sottwell at Jul 22, 2010, 05:21 AM

Any snippet that generates links with query string arguments should have a check for whether or not friendly URLs is in use, and set the character to use accordingly. The setting to check for is $modx->config[’friendly_urls’]; if it’s 1 then use ? if it’s 0 then use &.

$firstarg = $modx->config['friendly_urls'] ? '?' : '&';

should do the trick.

Thanks that works a treat!

and the beauty of that is that if you need to change from friendly URLs to not (or vice versa) for some reason, it’ll still work.