In vague answer to my own question - I have got the htaccess to accept my friendly urls such as above and they do redirect to the correct page with the query string but by the time the page has finished loading the url is no longer friendly and has the full /?var=foo syntax - still haven't worked that out.
However have just stumbled across the location of a 'Plug in' that seems to manage a lot of the redirect stuff / FURLs for the 'Articles'extra. It is located under 'Plug ins' and is called 'ArchivistFurl' but you will obviously have to install the 'Articles' extra first.
Here is the code from it:
if ($modx->event->name != 'OnPageNotFound') return;
$archiveIds = $modx->getOption('archivist.archive_ids',null,'');
if (empty($archiveIds)) return;
$archiveIds = explode(',',$archiveIds);
/* handle redirects */
$search = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$base_url = $modx->getOption('base_url');
if ($base_url != '/') {
$search = str_replace($base_url,'',$search);
}
$search = trim($search, '/');
/* get resource to redirect to */
$resourceId = false;
$prefix = 'arc_';
foreach ($archiveIds as $archive) {
$archive = explode(':',$archive);
$archiveId = $archive[0];
$alias = array_search($archiveId,$modx->aliasMap);
if ($alias && strpos($search,$alias) !== false) {
$search = str_replace($alias,'',$search);
$resourceId = $archiveId;
if (isset($archive[1])) $prefix = $archive[1];
}
}
if (!$resourceId) return;
/* figure out archiving */
$params = explode('/', $search);
if (count($params) < 1) return;
/* tag handling! */
if ($params[0] == 'tags') {
$_GET['tag'] = $params[1];
} else if ($params[0] == 'user' || $params[0] == 'author') {
$_GET[$prefix.'author'] = $params[1];
} else {
/* set Archivist parameters for date-based archives */
$_GET[$prefix.'year'] = $params[0];
if (isset($params[1])) $_GET[$prefix.'month'] = $params[1];
if (isset($params[2])) $_GET[$prefix.'day'] = $params[2];
}
/* forward */
$modx->sendForward($resourceId);
return;
I will need to examine it further to see if I can mod some of it to fix my issue.
