Dynamic product urls

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Bingo Reply #1, 14 years, 9 months ago

I have a problem. I use friendly urls in MODX Revolution 2.1.5-pl. But I want product pages to be dynamic. All my products are supposed to be listed in site.com/product/ when you click on a product you will go to /product/product-name and load the product product-name in a snippet or something like that.
Now modx thinks the page is not found and sends me to the start page. What I want is to show /product and maybe send product-name by GET variable.

How do I solve this?

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breezer Reply #2, 14 years, 9 months ago

I am not the original author of the following, I copied it from the forums many moons ago. It looks like it will fit your purpose, although a few mods for revolution coding may be needed. Hope it helps

You can author a plugin that uses $modx->sendForward() and is registered to the OnPageNotFound event that does whatever you want. Here is an example:

Code:

/*
     OnPageNotFound
*/

/*
this should be the Resource id of the page containing your view Snippet
*/
$productResourceId = 21;

$requestURI = trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/');
$requestParts = explode('/', $requestURI, 2);
if (count($requestParts) == 2) {
    if ($requestParts[0] === 'store') {
        /*
        this assumes you have a product table with an alias field for specifying the relative product URL as t-shirts/v-neck.html
        */
        $productId = $modx->db->getValue("SELECT `product_id` FROM `product` WHERE `alias` = '{$requestParts[1]}'");
        if (intval($productId)) {
            /*
            set the productId into the $_GET variable for your product view Snippet to use
            */
            $_GET['productId'] = $productId;
            /*
            now forward the request to your Resource containing the product view Snippet
            (forwarding does not change the requested URL like a redirect)
            */
            $modx->sendForward($productResourceId);
        }
    }
}

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Bingo Reply #3, 14 years, 9 months ago

TY breezer

Solved it with:

<?php
$pages = array('movie' => 5, 'music' => 4);

$requestURI 	= trim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/');
$requestParts 	= explode('/', $requestURI);

if (count($requestParts) == 2) {
    if (array_key_exists($requestParts[0], $pages)) {

        $productId = GET ID FROM DATABASE;
      
        if (intval($productId)) {
           
            $_GET['productId'] = $requestParts[1];
            $modx->sendForward($pages[$requestParts[0]]);
	  
        }
    }
}