Answered Is there a way to tell if a user accesses a page via index.php?id=...

I need to determine if a user accesses a page using www.example.com/index.php?id=100 for example (instead of www.example.com/friendly/path/to/page). Is this possible?

I assume the change from index.php?id= to /friendly/path/to/page occurs in Modx itself.

This might do it:

The apache logs show the index.php?id= first then the modified url:


The only items I changed above are the IP addresses and the modified url in the second log entry.

None of the $_SERVER variables seem to help. The $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable is "/modified/path/to/page/" not the initial string "index.php?id=..." from the 1st request.

Quote from: BobRay at May 05, 2014, 10:39 PM

This might do it:

<!--?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'index.php') !== false) {
   /* Not a friendly URL */
}

-->

If you are using mod_rewrite, then MODX never knows if the index.php was directly requested or not. Apache rewrites the URL before passing it on to MODX's index.php.

Unfortunately, for some reason MODX does an actual redirect, so the SERVER variables for the original request are lost.

The onHandleRequest might be what I'm looking for. Testing now.

Quote from: Bruno17 at May 06, 2014, 12:57 AM

not sure, if that is what you want.
You can try this in a plugin with the system-event onHandleRequest

<!--?php
if (isset($_GET['id'])){
	$modx--->sendForward($_GET['id']);
}

this doesn't do a sendRedirect, if there is ?id=XXX in the URL

So is MODX forcing every page to be requested twice by using a redirect if Friendly URLs is turned on?

I think it's the other way around. The redirect only occurs when FURLs are off.

The FURL rewrite rule in .htaccess only comes into play when the URL is not found. So when Apache doesn't find the original URL, it gets re-written to index.php? + the alias before MODX gets a look at it. As I read the code, if the request handler can find the resource based on the alias, it will return it without a forward.

URLs already in the form index.php?id=## should bypass the FURL rewrite rules (since index.php exists), but then index.php (in the request handler) gets the uri from the resource, prepends the site_url and does a forward (sendRedirect()). OnHandleRequest gets called before any rewriting so Bruno17's technique should work.

Sounds like if furls are on, it'll redirect any non-fulr URLs.