Login.Profile and Friendly URLs

Hello all,

I'm working on a site which supports user registrations and all registered user profiles are shown to public. Everything goes well using Login, Profile and etc. add-ons. The problem is with using friendly urls.

Furls work fine, but only on resources. For user profiles my call is for example:
www.domain.com/index.php?id=10&userId=5

Furl converts this into:
www.domain.com/profile.html?userId=5 (profile is the alias for the resource showing the profile of selected user)

Is there any chance to show something like www.domain.com/user, or www.domain.com/user.html
Thank you very much in advance for your support.

I'm using Revo 2.2.4 pl

Regards,
Svetlyo

That looks like a good candidate for a plugin using the 'OnPageNotFound' event. Get the last part of the URI and look for a user with that name. Send forward to that user's profile. If it's still not found, process to the error page as usual.

Absolutely. There are a few ways to do this, depending on your needs.

You may make a Resource with alias "user" and write a Snippet that checks if the current logged in user is a valid user (sanitizing MODx). Then you may get that user's profile.

For further exploration: you may use @sottwell's suggestion and create a Plugin that fires on OnPageNotFound and accepts a parameter. (Such that http.//domain.tld/user/5). That parameter could grab the profile of that user ID when present, but when not present is the current user's profile. This is fairly simple to implement and I use such techniques in this tutorial. This tutorial does not directly apply to profiles, but is pretty easy to apply for just profiles.

Both suggestions would require a single initial Resource named "user", and the Snippet to get the Profile information.

Thank you for the replies.

Meantime I found easier way to implement this by use of UserUrls add-on by yoleg.

After some modification I managed to achieve desired user profile address i.e. http://www.domain.com/username